2006-10-03 14:05:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Any of you so called wx experts ever heard of a Tempature Inversion???
Mike is the only one that actually has it right!!
NORMALLY temp decreases as altitude increases, but this is not always the case.
2006-10-05 12:42:03 · answer #1 · answered by cherokeeflyer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you move up through the troposphere the temperature decreases as you move away from the source of heat...aka the earth, this heat is infrared which is reradiated from the earths surface. However, as you move up through the stratosphere the temperature begins to increase as the suns rays are reflected, absorbed and refracted by the ozone layer, water vapour etc. The mesosphere contains very few particles and so as you move up through this the temperature will again decrease. The thermosphere pretty much explains itself as you move up through this the air gets hotter and hotter into space.
Yea pa28... i av heard of it and i said how temperature changes in the different layers of the atmosphere you genius you.
2006-10-04 04:24:10 · answer #2 · answered by jo88 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I don't think it works that way...
As you go up into the air here on Earth, the air gets thinner and thinner, and the temperature
gets colder and colder.
Check this idea out by (if you live in the USA) making
a temperature check at the bottom of Mt. Washington,
then driving up to the top and measuiring the temperature there. I think you will find it a lot colder on top. Oh, yes, there is a road all the way up, but you have to walk the last few hundred feet.
2006-10-03 14:36:19 · answer #3 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If increases and decreases... depends on which layer you are in.....
Wikipedia does a good job explaining it... here is a link... check out the section that says, "temperatures and the atmospheric layers"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_atmosphere
2006-10-03 14:57:08 · answer #4 · answered by Mike B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the other way around. Temperature DECREASE as height increases.
2006-10-03 14:16:38 · answer #5 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. The exact opposite is true. For every 1000 feet in altitude, it gets approximately 3 degrees cooler. I was at about 35,000feet in a plane, and it was like -60F!!! on September 9 of 2000!!!
2006-10-03 14:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by thewordofgodisjesus 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
depends on what -sphere you are talking in
close to ground it decreases but in the far reaches it just gets all sorts of hot
2006-10-03 14:14:06 · answer #7 · answered by Kelsey 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
in the stratosphere.
2006-10-03 14:26:21 · answer #8 · answered by Isles1015 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no.
2006-10-03 14:09:47 · answer #9 · answered by chad w 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋