Curious Kids: why is air colder the higher up you go?
- Written by Zoran Ristovski, Professor, Queensland University of Technology
The air up high is just really bad at 'holding' onto the radiation coming from the Sun, and the warmth passes straight through it on its journey toward the ground.Kevin Spencer/flicr, CC BY-NC
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