Dictionary definition: environmental lapse rate

Article: Atmospheric Lapse Rate
World of Earth Science;      559 words ... ... associated with vertical movement of air). A high lapse rate indicates a greater than normal change of ... unstable atmosphere. Although the atmospheric lapse rate (also known as the environmental lapse rate) is most often used to characterize temperature ...

Article: The Sensitivity of Convective Initiation to the Lapse ...
Monthly Weather Review;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... regimes dependent on the environmental lapse rate: a supercritical state ... sensitivity of DCI to the environmental lapse rate of the active cloudbearing ... be considered. [The environmental lapse rate is defined as Γ ...

Dictionary definition: lapse rate
A Dictionary of Weather;      322 words ... ... theoretical lapse rates are the dry adiabatic lapse rate and the saturated adiabatic lapse rate (which apply to dry and saturated air parcels ... within the atmosphere are described by the environmental lapse rate . See also ADIABATIC ; PSEUDO-ADIABATIC ...

Dictionary definition: saturated adiabatic lapse rate
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences;      384 words ...saturated adiabatic lapse rate (SALR) The adiabatic cooling ... cooling below the dry adiabatic lapse rate of 9.8 °C/km varies ... motion is determined by whether the environmental lapse rate of temperature within it is less ...

Article: An empirical study on the lapse rate: the ...
Journal of Risk and Insurance;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... technique to reexamine the contending lapse rate hypotheses: the emergency fund hypothesis ... that the unemployment rate affects the lapse rate in both the long and short run, whereas ... interest rate causes variations in the lapse rate mainly in the long run. This evidence ...

Article: Lapse rate trends and climate variability
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  September 1, 2002 ;     606 words ... ... a result, the surface to lower tropospheric lapse rate has increased 0.12 K decade-1 from 1979 to ... warmed faster than the surface-a decrease in the lapse rate. Although both lapse rate trends are subtle, they raise questions about ...

Article: Determinants of the lapse rate in life insurance ...
Review of Business;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... components of term and whole life. The lapse rate is a key operating parameter that ... life policies. Projections of the lapse rate are also critical in structuring ... securitization arrangements. Interest in lapse rate determinants has become more prominent ...