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Why does temperature decrease with higher altitude

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because of wind flowing up the side of a mountain, for example), it undergoes an expansion, from higher to lower pressure.

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The temperature generally decreases with altitude.

The reason is that the troposphere's gases absorb very little of the incoming solar radiation.

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