Definition of convective adjustment

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convective adjustment

The term 'convective adjustment' as it applies to the area of carbon dioxide can be defined as ' A numerical procedure applied in many atmospheric models to approximate the vertical nonradiative heat transport. This procedure adjusts the lapse rate whenever necessary so that some prescribed critical lapse rate is never exceeded'.

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