subsidence inversion
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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