Sentences with phrase «air parcel movements»

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That's the reason that the article that you linked — after all — into the discussion requires an external agency that causes the macroscopic movement of large parcels of air vertically to establish a DALR.

A «parcel» of air, or «differential» volume of air in any macroscopic discussion is a volume large enough to contain enough molecules that thermodynamic averages pertain to the behavior of the parcel as if the air inside were a continuous fluid, so that when conducting this sort of discussion we can ignore the movement of individual molecules across the surface of (which are in detailed balance anyway, at equilibrium).

You can't be possibly thinking that the movement of air parcels and their decompression and later compression is a process that results in an increase of the heat content and somehow balances out at today's observed levels?