Answers to Questions on The Mountain

 1) b) the temperature decreases

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2) Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate.  If you did not get this right, quit wasting your time on this, and go read the page on Adiabatic Processes.

3) The temperature will be 16 degrees C.   The air rose up 1000 meters, so it cooled off 10 degrees C.  If you said that the air temperature would be 36 degrees C, you made a common mistake.  Don't feel bad, but be careful in the future.

4) 6 degrees C

5) 100% relative humidity at dew point

6) Condense

7) Latent heat

8) Saturated adabatic lapse rate (also known as the wet adiabatic lapse rate, or moist adiabatic lapse rate)

9) Air temperature will be 1 degree C.

10) As air subsides, the temperature will rise.

11) No. If the temperature is rising, the relative humidity will drop, and condensation will stop.

12) The dry adiabatic lapse rate will be used if the air is subsiding and no evaporation is taking place.

13) 11 degrees C.  1 degree at 3000 meters plus 10 degrees increase in temperature (following the dry adiabatic lapse rate) equals 11 degrees C.

14) 21 degrees C

15) 31 degrees C

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03/08/02 |

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