subsidence inversion

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subsidence inversion [səb′sīd·əns in‚vər·zhən]

(meteorology)

A temperature inversion produced by the adiabatic warming of a layer of subsiding air; this inversion is enhanced by vertical mixing in the air layer below the inversion.

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