CONDITIONS PROMOTING
ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY (INSTABILITY)
1. Nighttime radiative cooling
(daytime radiative heating) of
surface.
2. Cold (warm) advection at surface.
3. Warm (cold) advection aloft.
4. Warmer
(colder) air
moving over cold (warm)
surface.
[lake
effect]
5. A sinking (rising) layer of air.
6. (Vertical mixing of layers.)