Temperature inversions are atmospheric layers where temperature increases with increasing altitude, contrary to the standard lapse rate, and commonly form overnight due to surface radiative cooling, ...

Normally, as you go up into the atmosphere, temperature decreases with height. But this is not always the case. The atmosphere is made up of many different layers that have different characteristics.

Let’s start with a very basic piece of scientific information: Warm air rises. This happens largely because warm air is less dense than the cooler air that surrounds it. This process also occurs when ...