Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate (DALR) | AIChE

Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate (DALR)

The negative of the temperature gradient established as dry air ascending in the atmosphere. For air with a molecular weight of 29 and a specific heat ratio of 1.41 the DALR = 0.995 degC/100m.

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