Whenever an anomaly exists in the atmosphere in which an increase in temperature or humidity occurs where a decrease would be expected, there is an inversion, or reversal. An atmospheric inversion most commonly refers to temperature. Normally air...

Whenever an anomaly exists in the atmosphere in which an increase in temperature, humidity, or precipitation occurs where a decrease would be expected, there is an inversion, or reversal. An atmospheric inversion most commonly refers to temperature...

Atmospheric inversions are horizontal layers of air that increase in temperature with height. Such warm, light air often lies over air that is cooler and heavier. As a result the air has a strong vertical stability, especially in the absence of strong...

A meteorological phenomenon of the TROPOSPHERE in which the normal TEMPERATURE GRADIENT in a body of air becomes inverted and an increase in height is accompanied by an increase in temperature rather than a decrease. This can happen for example in a...

In meteorology, an increase of air temperature with altitude. Such an increase is a reversal of the normal temperature condition of the troposphere, where temperature usually decreases with altitude. Inversions play an important role in determining...

When air becomes warmer with distance from the earth’s surface, a stable condition exists and there is little or no vertical mixing. The most common case is when air with a weak adiabatic lapse rate is overlain by an inverted layer. Pollutants...

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In meteorology, an inversion is a deviation from the normal change of an atmospheric property with altitude. It almost always refers to a temperature inversion, i.e., an increase in temperature with height, or to the layer within which such an increase...