An atmospheric condition in which temperature increases with height rather than decreasing as it normally does, trapping cooler, denser air near the surface beneath a warmer layer above. Inversions suppress vertical mixing and can concentrate fog, smog and other pollutants near ground level until the inversion breaks down.
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In meteorology, an inversion (or temperature inversion) is a phenomenon in which a layer of warmer air overlies cooler air. Normally, air temperature gradually decreases as altitude increases, but this relationship is reversed in an inversion.
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