autoconvective lapse rate

The environmental lapse rate of temperature in an atmosphere in which the density is constant with height (homogeneous atmosphere), equal to g/R, where g is the acceleration of gravity and R the gas constant.

For dry air the autoconvective lapse rate is approximately +3.4 × 10^-4°C per cm. Although the term is poorly named (
see autoconvection), it is useful in optics, since it defines the transition between upward and downward refraction of light in the atmosphere.

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The environmental lapse rate of temperature in an atmosphere in which the density is constant with height (homogeneous atmosphere), equal to g/R, where g is the acceleration of gravity and R the gas constant.

1. A gaseous envelope gravitationally bound to a celestial body (e.g., a planet, its satellite, or a star).