Table of Contents
- 1 What is the relationship between temperature and troposphere?
- 2 What is the relationship between temperature and height in the 5 layers?
- 3 What happens to temperature as height increases?
- 4 What causes temperature to decrease with height in the troposphere?
- 5 How does temperature change as you go higher and higher in the troposphere?
- 6 Why in the troposphere the temperature decreases with height?
What is the relationship between temperature and troposphere?
The troposphere is heated from the ground, so temperature decreases with altitude. Because warm air rises and cool air sinks, the troposphere is unstable. In the stratosphere, temperature increases with altitude.
What is the relationship between temperature and height in the 5 layers?
The troposphere gets its heat from the ground, and so temperature decreases with altitude. Warm air rises and cool air sinks and so the troposphere is unstable. In the stratosphere, temperature increases with altitude. The stratosphere contains the ozone layer, which protects the planet from the Sun’s harmful UV.
Why does temperature decrease with height in the troposphere?
In the troposphere, the temperature generally decreases with altitude. The reason is that the troposphere’s gases absorb very little of the incoming solar radiation. Instead, the ground absorbs this radiation and then heats the tropospheric air by conduction and convection.
What happens to temperature as height increases?
As you increase in elevation, there is less air above you thus the pressure decreases. As the pressure decreases, air molecules spread out further (i.e. air expands), and the temperature decreases. The temperature in the troposphere — the lowest layer of the earth’s atmosphere — generally decreases with altitude.
What causes temperature to decrease with height in the troposphere?
What is the relationship between the height thickness of the atmosphere and the temperature of the atmosphere?
The density of air changes with temperature. As the temperature of air cools in becomes more dense and thus more compacted (takes up less volume). Thus, as air cools the height lowers since the air is becoming more dense.
How does temperature change as you go higher and higher in the troposphere?
Temperatures drop as you move upward through the troposphere. Higher up in the troposphere, where less heat from the surface warms the air, the temperature drops. Typically, the temperature drops about 6.5° C with each increase in altitude of 1 kilometer (about 3.6° F per 1,000 feet).
Why in the troposphere the temperature decreases with height?
Why does temperature decrease as height increases?