Sentences with phrase «moist parcel of air»

As a moist parcel of air ascends it cools as it expands and does work against the rest of the atmosphere.

I was asking why a moist parcel of air would be surrounded by dry air.

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A low - altitude flow of warm, moist air from an ocean area combined with a flow of cold, dry polar air high up creates maximum instability, which means that parcels of air heated near the surface rise rapidly, creating powerful updrafts.

For reference, the amplification is related to the sensitivity of the moist adiabat to increasing surface temperatures (air parcels saturated in water vapour move up because of convection where the water vapour condenses and releases heat in a predictable way).

Nullius: «A parcel of moist air will rise if it is moister than the air surrounding it — but why would it be?

Specific humidity is the total mass of water vapor in a parcel of air divided by the mass of the moist air.

Second, the effects of changing density and latent heat release in the process that you describe (of a one - dimensional ascent of a moist air parcel) are well - known and discussed in Section 3.4 in our paper «Comparing forces due to condensation and buoyancy».

where is the gravitational acceleration, is the net radiative energy input to the atmosphere, is the ocean heat uptake, is the north - south wind, and is the energy of an air parcel (specifically the moist static energy).