Alternate Definitions for conditional instability

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Term: conditional instability
Definition:

The state of a layer of unsaturated air when its lapse rate of temperature is less than the dry-adiabatic lapse rate but greater than the moist-adiabatic lapse rate.

Created 2023.04.16
Last Modified 2023.04.16
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