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USATODAY.com Latest News ... One of the main reasons why elevation plays such an enormous role in snowfall amounts is that temperatures tend to be much colder at higher elevations than at lower elevations.
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www.usatoday.com/weather/welvsnow.htm
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Air at higher elevations is cooler because the pressure is lower. Gases expand at lower pressures. As a gas expands, the molecules (and atoms) within it move more slowly. ... Since it’s colder at high altitude, you can often see clouds of ice in the sky. The thin, wispy clouds called cirrus clouds are made up of ice...
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Air temperature is colder on top of a mountain than at sea level, but if heat rises how is this possible? Learn about air temperature in this article. ... As air rises, the pressure decreases. It is this lower pressure at higher altitudes that causes the temperature to be colder on top of a mountain than at sea level.
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www.howstuffworks.com/question186.htm
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Oct 7, 2008 ... I know it is colder at higher elevations (there is snow on the top of mountains when no snow is left on the bottom). ...
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engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/10/07/why-is-it-colder-at-higher-elevations/
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sort of, there's nothing much to absorb thermal radiation but plenty of places to radiate it to(space pretty much). the heat in the upper atmosphere mainly comes from convection mixing with the lower atmosphere although some of it will come...
http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=376...
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The higher up you are, the lower the air-pressure is. If a wind is blowing from sea level up to a mountain peak, the pressure decreases and the temperature falls - just like in the bicycle pump. Of course you heat up the air when the wind blows down the mountain - or if ... Why is it generally colder at higher elevations?
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> name Dana > status student > age 11 > Question - Why is it colder at the top of a mountain; when it is > closer to the >heat from the sun? Dear Dana- Your question about why temperatures on mountains aren't warmer, is a good one.
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www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/env99/env054.htm
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In fact, at a given latitude it's often colder at higher elevations (one would expect it to be warmer if higher elevations get more solar radiation), but this is due to factors other than solar radiation.
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cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pns/faq.html
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Hot air does rise due to its lesser density that the surrounding air, however, there is less atmospheric pressure at higher elevations, allowing denser (colder) air to remain at the top of a mountain...
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www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may97/862434682.Ot.r.html
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