The environmental lapse rate (ELR), is the rate of decrease of temperature with altitude in the stationary atmosphere at a given time and location.While Normal Lapse Rate is average concept for temperature decline with height in the troposphere.
When environmental lapse rate is more than dry adiabatic lapse rate, the atmosphere is said to be in
Lapse rate is the rate at which air temperature decreases with existing altitude
occurs in the tropopause- environmental lapse rate or normal elapse rate ELR
Usually somewhere between moist and dry adiabatic lapse rates: 6.5 C/1000 m - 10C/1000 m. It varies though seasonally, with location, and with time of day.
environmental lapse rate involves the actual temperature of the atmosphere at various heights. adiabatic cooling is the cooling of air caused when air is not allowed to expand or compress.
The rate at which adiabatic cooling occurs with increasing altitude for wet air (air containing clouds or other visible forms of moisture) is called the wet adiabatic lapse rate, the moist adiabatic lapse rate, or the saturated adiabatic lapse rate.
Lapse rate
The lapse rate is defined as the rate at which atmospheric temperature decreases with increase in altitude. It is strongly influenced by both the heating and cooling of the ground.
There are two types of adiabatic lapse rates...wet and dry. (wet is also referred to as saturated or moist) To the extent that the cloudiness your question refers to represents saturated air, then no, the wet adiabatic lapse rate would be lower (approximately 1.5C/1000') than the dry adiabatic lapse rate (approximately 3C/1000').
less than the wet adiabatic rate.
less than the wet adiabotic rate