Dry-adiabatic process

dry-adiabatic process

1. An adiabatic process in a hypothetical atmosphere in which no moisture is present.
2. An adiabatic process in which no condensation of its water vapor occurs and no liquid water is present.

See adiabatic process, moist-adiabatic process, dry-adiabatic lapse rate.

Term edited 20 December 2019.