Temperature Inversion

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Wildfire Knowledge Graph · Fuels & Weather

Working definition

An atmospheric layer in which temperature increases with height, suppressing vertical mixing and potentially trapping smoke.

In plain language

An atmospheric layer in which temperature increases with height, suppressing vertical mixing and potentially trapping smoke.

Why it matters

Temperature Inversion is useful because it separates one specific part of wildfire behaviour, exposure, operations or evidence from nearby concepts that can otherwise be mixed together.

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Tecnobosque explanation reviewed 12 September 2026. Source definitions are authoritative within their stated jurisdiction; the explanatory text above is an independent technical synthesis.