If the environmental lapse rate is less than the moist adiabatic rate, the atmosphere is?
a. ?conditionally unstable.
b. ?absolutely stable.
c. ?absolutely unstable.
d. ?neutrally stable.
e. ?superadiabatic.
ANSWER: b
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