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subsidence inversion

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: subsidence inversion
(səb′sīd·əns in′vər·zhən)

(meteorology) A temperature inversion produced by the adiabatic warming of a layer of subsiding air; this inversion is enhanced by vertical mixing in the air layer below the inversion.


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