A moist, saturated, and rising parcel of air at 0 degrees Celsius

A) is likely being warmed by the release of latent hear.
B) cools at the dry adiabatic lapse rate.
C) has all of its water in the solid state.
D) will soon start to descend.
E) all of the above.


A

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