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stable air




Graph of stable conditions

 

Stable air occurs when the dry adiabatic rate is greater than the environmental lapse rate. Under these conditions, air that is uplifted from the surface resist vertical displacement because it is cooler and more dense than the air that surrounds it.

 

 

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