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inversion, thermal

  1. In meteorology , a situation in which a layer of warm air (an inversion layer) lies over a layer of cool air.


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Notes

If an inversion occurs over a city, it results in air pollution , because some pollutants, such as smoke or soot, which are usually removed by normal weather processes, are held at the surface by the cool layer. ( See smog .)

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