Why does it get colder the higher you go?

[@alishpatel5058]

Well explained

[@Ebi.Adonkie]

Hahaha.. I was teaching my students about weather and asked decided to ask them why it gets cooler as we go higher, counter intuitive to observations. I knew the answer but I just wanted to make sure😄

[@LiacosEM]

That's great! Be sure to check out the Shedding Light on the Sun and Earth series at www.liacoseducationalmedia.com/shedding-light-on-the-sun-and-earth.

[@wildwoodtop]

Is humidity lower at higher elevations

[@Ebi.Adonkie]

@@wildwoodtop humidity is higher at higher altitudes

[@suchhun]

@@wildwoodtop Humidity is amount of water vapour aka cloud 🌨️ which is always at top

[@hyzercreek]

@@Ebi.Adonkie Relative humidity is around the same. Absolute humidity is much much MUCH lower at high altitudes.

[@A1_DASH]

Mt. Everest is 8,848 meters to 8,850 meters high. It sometimes moves and reaches 8,850, but there is nothing to worry about it.

[@ksameer1643]

Explanation is dam good ...tq

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

So how that it works with the sun

[@jayhope615]

so is it the same temperature at 20,000 feet at the equator as it is in the north pole?

[@hyzercreek]

Heck no. 20,000 feet at the equator is troposhere. 20,000 feet at the pole is stratosphere.

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

Yes, mostly this, i believe. Also there might be some effect from a phenomonon calld lapse rate. This occurs on all planets having atmosphere. Due to gravity, gas layers below has high pressure and temperature. The most glaring example is jupiter. So far from the sun, jupiter is very hot (700 celcius ++) down below its very thick atmosphere.

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Thank you

[@LiacosEM]

You're welcome.

[@enjoythearctic8972]

What about the Tibetan plateau? Probably the air pressure should be mentioned?

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

Very good question. Even what this video said might be true but there is something else in play. Maybe it is mostly due to phenomenon called lapse rate. This occurs on all planets having atmosphere. Due to gravity, gas layers below has high pressure and temperature. The most glaring example is jupiter. So far from the sun, jupiter is very hot (700 celcius ++) down below its very thick atmosphere. .

[@alejah.b4410]

This video it's very iteresting

[@LiacosEM]

Thanks, Aleja. Weather and climate are always interesting!!

[@Sifar333]

I still don't understand 😅

[@paulworth8757]

So it's the light from the sun, not heat, that causes temperature fluctuations ?

[@LiacosEM]

Light and heat from the sun are really the same thing. It's all electromagnetic radiation. The light that we can see (visible light) and the radiant heat (infrared light) both contribute more or less equally to the Earth's heating. UV also makes up a small percentage of the heating. Radiant heaters that we use in our homes and elsewhere produce mostly infrared light (which our eyes can't see). If they produced visible light instead of mostly infrared, they would work fine as heaters but they would be so incredibly bright that we wouldn't want to use them as heaters because we would be blinded!

[@TheEyeOfSa]

Luv it mate

[@aliibrahim6407]

But sunlight also striked the surface of mountains too. Then why doesnt it heat.

[@LiacosEM]

It does! But a mountain is surrounded by colder air.

[@bork661]

Skeletron Prime is about to come?

[@paull2937]

The ocean doesn’t heat up as fast when hit by the sun because the ocean is always in motion and the thin layer of water near the surface heated by the sun mixes with the much cooler and much thicker layer of water beneath the surface.

[@samueladitya1729]

And ground heat up fast only the top layer because of insulating properties. The lower soil stays cool, so cooling using earth is a good idea to save energy.

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

Yes, that. And also, water evaporate, losing heat. And heat capacity is higher while heat transfer rate is lower i guess.

[@donthompson9522]

Funny thing the sun is hot 🔥 yes 🧐 it seems to me the closer you get to the Sun the hotter it would get. If air is thinner the higther up you go so is the sun cold like a led light and the Earth give off heat the higther up it go the more the heat is Lost . After all Earth has a hot lava in the middle . I m so confused now 😮

[@nicokremers7150]

This is nonsense. It is colder because the air pressure is lower when you go up. That is why it is warmer at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

[@LiacosEM]

Air pressure is also a factor but our atmosphere is primarily heated by the ground.

[@Coach_cesar]

Flat erf

[@abhilashaaswal6694]

हिम? हाउ I नेवर ऐस्क्ट धट

[@adrianbratt9927]

If the sun heating the ground is causing the air to warm just above it - then why are the mountains colder than the beach? Both are land being heated by the sun. The reason it gets colder as you get higher is due to something called the lapse rate. If you want it really simple, the air lower down is compressed more and the ideal gas equation gives you temperature as a function of pressure and volume. Integrating that over altitude shows clearly why temperature falls with altitude. If you are going to discuss "climate science" then please take the time to educate yourself before publishing this garbage. Your analysis is BS and your conclusion all wrong. All the best, A.

[@brianramirez8255]

cause the earth is flat

[@BrandonshanesProductions]

No

[@iHaxYT]

Yes

[@justdiggsit4542]

Isn't the sun local on a flat earth? So y is it not HOTTER on mountains considering they should be closer to the sun if it were local? Bcuz flat earth is make believe for idiots

[@angrypickup3499]

😂

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

Maybe 😂

[@GlennThompson]

So, he didn't even come close to, or allude to the reason. What a waste of time, I guess "he's a climate scientist".

[@martinhernandez9719]

What?

[@alejah.b4410]

Boy, if you don't uderstand the video you can put subtitles

[@ezpz4646]

Thank you

[@terabhai_boogeyman]

Thank you