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The temperature gets colder as you go upward in the troposphere. Light from the Sun heats the ground. The warm ground gives off the heat as infrared "light". The IR energy heats the troposphere. The lowest part of the troposphere is the warmest because it is closest to the ground, where the heat is coming from.

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It gets colder by 1 degree Celsius for about every 160 meters you go up.

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As you move higher into the atmosphere, the temperature gets colder and colder. At some point it is hard to breath and if you're up there to high, you need to come down for oxygen.

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What happens to temperature as you go up in elevation?

It gets colder by 1 degree Celsius for about every 160 meters you go up.


What happens as you go up a mountain?

Increasing elevation leads to a lower amount of air, mass, weight and pressure. It can also lead to a decreasing temperature.


What is the relationship between elevations and climate?

The relationship between elevation and climate has to do with temperature. The higher up the elevation is the colder the temperature is.


What happens to temperature as elevation increase?

As elevation increases temperature decreases reaching the coldest altitude (around -90 degrees C). Once you ascend into the Thermosphere (56 miles high) The temperatures will be extremely high, ranging from 200 degrees C up to 500 Degrees C as you climb in elevation.


What is the elevation formula for climate going up a mountain. for every feet you go up a mountain the temperature goes down degrees?

there is none.


What happens to the density of the atmosphere as you go up higher?

temperature and altitude


As elevation rises temperature does what?

In the troposphere, the temperature drops. In the stratosphere (layer above the troposphere) it increases with elevation. In the mesosphere, temperature drops again with elevation. In the theromosphere, it goes up again (to nearly stellar surface temperatures).


What happens to temperature as you go higher in the troposphere?

the temp goes down, the winds go up, and the pressure goes up...


What Happens to a climate as one goes up in elevation?

I don't know about climate but the adiabatic lapse rate (the amount it gets cooler as you go up) is 3.1 degrees F for every 1,000 feet rise in elevation.


What happens to the temperature of the discharge line when the head pressure is increased?

the line go up


What is the boiling temperature of water in the US customary system?

At sea level the normal boiling temperature is 212 °F. As you go up in elevation, the boiling temperature drops.


Why low temperature at mountains?

because they're higher up and have more elevation.