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Stability

It has been said that without vertical motions in the atmosphere, there is no weather. Stability provides a crucial control on the ability of air to rise or sink. For that reason, an assessment of stability is a critical part of the forecast process.

This section provides background on stability definitions and concepts, as well as atmospheric processes that act to change the stability, in the context of the skew-T diagram.

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