EESA06H3 Lecture : eesa06 assignment3.doc
11 Mar 2012
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When you start at sea level, one must use the dry adiabatic lapse rate (dalr). This is because air will have had passed through the dew point after it has risen to its possible height, creating clouds through condensation, thus when it descends it will not be saturated. Therefore dalr is during descent when air is not saturated with water: refer to figure 1, table 1. Air mass temperature and moisture state at various elevations. Unsaturated: the precipitation will likely occur in the mountain area, on the windward side. This phenomenon called convection often connected with the use of lapse rates, specifically the rates at which the temperatures of the air increases or decreases due to the saturation of the air. This phenomenon of air rising over a mountain is most likely to occur in the provinces of british columbia, where it has many mountains, allowing for air to rise over the slopes and creating.
