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Why is a log scale used in the vertical for pressure?
Explain the difference between the dry adiabats and the saturation adiabats. What does each physically represent?
Why do the saturation adiabats become parallel to the dry adiabats as they reach the top of the chart?
Explain the differences between the environmental lapse rate, the dry adiabatic lapse rate, and the moist adiabatic lapse rate.
Why do most super adiabatic layers occur directly above the surface on warm, sunny days?
For equivalent temperature, why do you have to follow a saturation adiabat upward to a pressure where the saturation and dry adiabats are parallel before bringing the parcel back down to the original level?
Is the virtual temperature of a parcel more or less than the temperature of the parcel?
What is the importance of the LFC and what is needed for a parcel to reach this pressure level?
Why is virtual temperature so important to use when looking at stability on a Skew-T?
Look at the soundings you have loaded in IDV. Do any of the soundings have a super adiabatic layer? Which one(s)?
Explain the concept of conditional instability.
How does a subsidence inversion form?
Why do radiation inversions only form at night?
What is conduction and how does it relate to radiation inversions.