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Jeff Spitzer wrote:

At 02:41 PM 8/9/99 -0700, you wrote:

Russell Kent wrote:

Jeff Spitzer wrote:

If you do the math you will find that cooling potential/capacity is at a
maximum at the tropopause (about 30K ft)  That is where the product of
density and temperature are best for cooling.  Above there it gets

harder to

cool.

This is good to know.  Does this mean that a volume of air at 30K cools

better

than the same volume of air does at MSL?

Russell Kent

No, this means that things that are exposed to the same conditions of
either free or forced convection will cool better.  It is not necessarily
the same volume of air.

Jeff Spitzer

 
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