absolute stability

The state of a column of air in the atmosphere when its lapse rate of temperature is less than the saturation-adiabatic lapse rate.

Related terms:

• neutral stability
• absolute instability
• conditional instability
• saturation-adiabatic lapse rate
• dry adiabatic lapse rate
• stability index
• Showalter stability index
• absolute age
• absolute time
• static stability