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Atmospheric stability is a measure of atmospheric status which determines whether or not air will rise, sink, or be neutral. In general stability refers to air tendency to rise or to resist vertical motion (Salby 1996; Houghton 2002; Hewitt and Jackson 2003; Lutgens and Tarbuck 2009; Hantel 2013). As the air parcel rises, it will expand and cool adiabatically to its dew point (i.e. the level of condensation) at which clouds are formed. There are four mechanisms that trigger air rising (Markowski and Richardson 2010):
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Spiridonov, V., Ćurić, M. (2021). Atmospheric Stability. In: Fundamentals of Meteorology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52655-9_9
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