Stormwind 📞 7893

@Freedom2B @ZLabe I think one can visualize that literally like a dome, like the air supported domes used as sports halls. Instead of a compressor, that meteorological dome is "supported" or fueled by the heat at ground level, which heats up air, which rises up into higher atmospheric levels, like a hot air ballon. The hotter the ground, the more and hotter air mass is genererated, the further that air rises up until it reaches the 500hPa pressure level.

@Freedom2B @ZLabe I imagine it like the hot air and combustion gases that are funneled up above a campfire, as can be seen by the stream of embers floating up into the sky, and, if there's a lot or long living embers, one can see that the hot gas mass eventually does not rise up any more, the embers move I'm an arc, then horizontally, and eventually sink down towards the ground, some distance away from the campfire itself. That way, there's a mini heat dome above the fire.

@Npars01 @ZLabe