Originally Posted by
B Fraser
okey dokey
check out
http://www.du.edu/~etuttle/weather/atphys.htm and start reading at paragraph "Stability of an Air Column".
I could have written a bit more but suddenly the lure of ironing a shirt followed by dishwashwer emptying/ filling and sock sorting was far more compelling.
Well on the face of it, it all looks hunkey dorey, but there's a glaring mistake that you've made, which means I'll have to work through more rigourously to make sure there aren't more errors. Not bad for an inter-laundering effort though

Oh forgot to mention the mistake, there should be a "I" at the start of the paragraph on "Lapse Rate"
SIDT