If wet air that is 45 degrees Celsius rises 3000 meters, what will its temperature become?

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What type of air mass will form over a subtropical desert, high or low pressure?

What type of air mass will form over a continental glacier, high or low pressure?

If the two air masses meet, in what direction will the wind blow?

What will determine the strength of the wind?

Answer 1

Wet air - saturated air -, at 0 ft in ISA conditions should be 15oC. The environmental lapse rate is the rate that the temp should change per 1000 feet, which is generally 2oC/1000ft. So 3000 m is say 10000ft. So in ISA conditions 10000 ft should be -5oC. As the air at ground level is saturated it will cool at the dry adiabiatic lapse rate until it reaches the dew point and then cloud forms and it will cool at the saturated lapse rate. assuming with your question that dew point isnt reached, then at 3000m the air will have cooled to about 15oC using the dry lapse rate. Is this the full question? i hope this is of some use.

> Tropical Continental Air Mass - high pressure

> Polar Maritime Air Mass -  low pressure

>depends where they meet, wind clockwise about LP in Southern Hemi, and anticlockwise about HP in souther hemi. opposite for norther hemisphere.

> strength of wind determined by how low the LP system is and how close the two systems are together.

Answer 2

If wet air that is 45 degrees Celsius rises 3000 meters, what will its temperature become? It will decrease

What type of air mass will form over a subtropical desert, high or low pressure?  Continental Tropical air mass with High Pressure

What type of air mass will form over a continental glacier, high or low pressure?  Continental polar or arctic air mass high pressure

If the two air masses meet, in what direction will the wind blow?  The direction from where the air mass that's taking over the one that 's already there is coming from.

What will determine the strength of the wind? The difference of air pressure over a small area. The larger differences in air pressure over a small area, the stronger the wind will be.