Multiple Choice
As air rises,it cools and clouds can form.The rate of cooling determines the elevation of cloud formation and cloud thickness.From first to last,the rates of cooling are
A) dry adiabatic lapse rate-cloud base; moist adiabatic lapse rate-cloud thickness; environmental lapse rate-upper limit of cloud.
B) moist adiabatic lapse rate-cloud base; dry adiabatic lapse rate-cloud thickness; environmental lapse rate-upper limit of cloud.
C) environmental lapse rate-cloud base; moist adiabatic lapse rate-cloud thickness; dry adiabatic lapse rate-upper limit of cloud.
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