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Research brief: New model explores the relationship between humidity, instability, and precipitation in the tropics

November 26, 2019 9:57 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: New model explores the relationship between humidity, instability, and precipitation in the tropics

In this paper, CLEX researchers considered the steady-state response of the atmosphere to an imposed large-scale flow. They found that under these steady-state conditions, humidity increases with the precipitation rate, while the lapse rate (rate of decrease of temperature with height) increases.