temperature inversion
Origin of temperature inversion
1First recorded in 1940–45
Words Nearby temperature inversion
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How to use temperature inversion in a sentence
There’s a bizarre temperature inversion here during the winter, in that the cold air settles in the valley surrounding the Rio Grande, and warmer air occupies the higher-elevation Chisos Basin.
In certain cases the reversal of movement may take place a little earlier than the temperature inversion.
Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 | Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
British Dictionary definitions for temperature inversion
temperature inversion
noun
meteorol an abnormal increase in temperature with height in the troposphere
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