If the temperature decrease with* height is unusually strong, this is a high
lapse rate, sometimes called a "steep
lapse rate" by meteorologists.
5a, inset) with a
lapse rate of 9.6[degrees]C [km.sup.-1].
While the wind speed data recorded at DGA suggest that wind does not have an impact on
lapse rate, we cannot exclude the possibility that there could be microscale advection occurring along the glacier--particularly in those short periods when
lapse rates become very high for a few minutes.
Kushnir (2000),
Lapse Rate, Moisture, Clouds and Thuderstorms, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University [Online], available: http://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/ees/climate/index.html
The interior pressure line (the interior
lapse rate "line") moves laterally--horizontally shifts to the left from Figure 2 to Figure 3.
As this article's main text discusses, the standard
lapse rate is two degrees Centigrade (about 4.5 deg.
Mean air temperature
lapse rates between 15 and 1320 m asl vary at both daily and monthly scales (0.015-0.096[degrees]C [km.sup.-1]); thus, calculation of
lapse rates across the ice cap requires knowledge of local meteorological conditions (Holmgren, 1971a).
Of special interest in the area of
lapse rate analysis is the role of the financial stress position of the insurer, and whether and in what ways stress considerations may influence policyholder lapsation/persistence.
The court noted a valid dispute over Capital's adjustment for goodwill, but rejected as erroneous the Tax Court's conclusion that Capital failed to establish a "
lapse rate" for its contracts (i.e., the probability that each group's contract would lapse in any given year).
High [E.sub.p] rates at high elevations are expected (1) in mountains of the dry tropics with low cloudiness and low rainfall but high radiation and, (2) in small oceanic mountain ranges with a strong advection of moist air and, thus, a reduced temperature
lapse rate on the slope.