temperature gradient

Local convection is influenced by carbon dioxide because this gas lessens the temperature gradient.

They were piercing the thermosphere where the outside temperature gradient would zoom upward toward the 2,000 degree mark.

What you want to find is this: What is the rate of temperature decrease, or the temperature gradient, at Buffalo?

Note carefully any effects of the cyclone upon the temperature gradient.

The rate of vertical decrease of temperature is known in meteorology as the vertical temperature gradient.