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unstable air



Graph depicting unstable atmospheric conditions.

 

Unstable air  occurs when the Dry adiabatic rate is less than the environmental lapse rte of temperature. Unstable air does not resist vertical displacement as it is warmer and less dense than the air that surrounds it.

 

 

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