What is adiabatic cooling?
A. The effect of rainfall on windward side of a mountain.
B. The influence of polar air masses on tropical mountains.
C. Increasing elevation leads to a decrease in air pressure and cooler air.
D. The influence of sinking cooler air in a Hadley cell.
E. The enhanced cooling caused by cloud cover at higher elevations.
C. Increasing elevation leads to a decrease in air pressure and cooler air.
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