Background Material
Vertical Motion and Stability
As the book points out, there are four basic methods of lifting the air
- Convergence and Divergence
- Orography
- Fronts
- Convection
The book includes a brief introduction to turbulence, particularly mechanical turbulence. Here is additional information on turbulence.
The book also does a good job of introducing the concept of atmospheric stability. However, the book does not use diagrams typically used by meteorologist to analysis atmospheric stability. So, let's mover on to some additional material on thermodynamic diagrams not in the book.
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