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Sailplanes use updrafts to stay aloft for hours at a time. Nearone particular airfield, a stone quarry (with very dark rocks)surrounded by a wooden area provides a particularly regular sourcefor updrafts on hot days. With your knowledge of heat transfer,explain the processes that create the updraft

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Air which is cooler than its environment inclines to sink as extended as it can stay cooler than its backdrop The upward displacing air in a thunderstorm is called as the updraft while downward displacing air is the downdraft The environment can be unbalanced for updrafts and balanced for downdrafts balanced for updrafts but unbalanced for downdrafts balanced for both or unbalanced    See Answer
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