temperature gradient

The almost 24-mile Rim-to-Rim route will carry you through a stunning temperature gradient—it’s not uncommon to have feet of snow stacked on the canyon rim and balmy 50-degree temps at the canyon bottom.

However, he says, the temperature gradients caused by laser heating introduce a good deal of uncertainty.

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.