Talk:Inversion (meteorology)

message: I propose to rename this article "Inversion (meteorology)".   Tmangray 17:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That doesn't sound like a good idea at all. T inv is the std name. William M. Connolley 07:55, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename Article

message: Sleet and ice storms are, by definition, caused by inversions!  There must be a warm layer above ground level to melt the precipitation, then a cold layer at the ground to freeze it.  This is the definition of asn inversion. Why does this correct information keep getting removed!
: (William M. Connolley 08:26, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: sleet and ice

message: I added the Lochcarron pic, which I'm pretty sure is a temp. inversion; if anyone who knows more about weather than me wants to check it, that would be good. — Johan the Ghost seance 14:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lochcarron pic 

message: Agree with the merger, go for it! — Johan the Ghost seance 14:34, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: I hacked the consequences a bit. I believe that the main contribution to "stillness" is the lack of convection. This also affects buoyant plumes, which tend to entrain ambient air and hence stop being buoyant at some point (below the inversion top usually). In other words, stuff *isn't* trapped at the *top* of the inversion. Also, the clouds stuff: fog in an inversion is just low cloud; so inversions don't stop cloud. The new pic looks nice though William M. Connolley 20:43, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you!  I was passing through Lochcarron and saw this, and my first thought was "Temperature inversion — Wikipedia!"  Maybe I've been spending too much time here... ;-)  It does look like a classic case, though (though I'm no expert).  — Johan the Ghost seance 10:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rephrase - consequences 

message: :"Hot air, however, rises (*). This is convection in which the warmer air rises up, to be replaced with cooler air which is then heated. It is this process that leads to cloud building, thermals, and other convection related atmospheric behaviour.
:(*) The truth is that Colder air sinks and occupies the lower layers. It is the simple gravitational effect of a "heavier" (denser) mass winning over a lighter mass. Hot air has no intrinsic antigavitational properties"
Actually it does.  Warm air doesn't "rise", except relatively speaking.  It expands.  Part of that expansion is upward, e.g. against the force of gravity. Tmangray 03:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hot/Cold Air 

message: Why not mention the Great Smog of 1952 in the consequences section?  It was a temperature inversion with important consequences... Psyno 22:46, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. Go for it. -Will Beback 02:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Psyno 22:30, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great Smog of 1952 

message: I believe it should be "an increase in potential temperature with height", as there can be an inversion even if the temperature decreases with height - if the decrease is smaller than that caused by adiabatic transfer of air upwards.  
The diagram should have curves for both adiabatic and normal variation, and the article should discuss in terms of °C/km.
(I studied physics, but never meteorology.)    OlavN 07:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct to write "an increase in temperature with height"?  

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 09:55, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: This statement doesn't convey much meaning: '...causing them to sound like "scrambled eggs"'.  I don't know what scrambled eggs sound like.  I propose to either redefine in terms the reader can understand or remove altogether.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.59.150.191 (talk) 07:22, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scrambled Eggs 

message: Inversion layers seem to affect most coasts and valleys, am I correct? In that case, is it really useful to have a list of cities in the article, since almost all cities in the world are either on a coast or in a valley? It's also a little unsure of what it wants to be; it starts off as a list of cities where inversion layers drive smog (which is almost just a List of most polluted cities by particulate matter concentration), and then segues into a list of a number of smaller cities that are so far down the list of "most polluted" that they're actually higher on the list of "cleanest," like the whole set of Willamette Valley cities that someone decided had to be in there. I think it should probably just go, it doesn't really add anything. SilverbackNet talk 22:50, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove list of cities 

message: thermal lapse rate is BS
if your 5 yro can't understand it , it is not right for a gnereal encylopedia
geez, why do you stem types never make it simple ?
math and linguistics stem is the worst  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:192:4700:1F70:7832:858E:FDFE:4F10 (talk) 21:22, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: intro not at level of encylopedia

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