List the primary factors that can increase the instability or stability of air
What will be an ideal response?
Essay should include the following concepts:
Instability: Warming of the lowest layers of air as the surface is heated by solar radiation; heating of cold air passing over a warmer surface; upward movement due to the presence of a lifting mechanism other than convection; radiation cooling of cloud tops
Stability: radiation cooling of the surface during the night; cooling of an air mass passing over a colder surface; the presence of subsidence
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A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4
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