Question Base of cloud??

[iflyhigh]

Hey I just have a question. Can anyone please help me out...here it is....If the temperature is +14 degrees C, the Dew Point +2 degrees C and there is some surface heating producing convective cloud, what is the base of that cloud? (dry adiabatic lapse rate = -3 degrees C/1000 ft)

thanks

 

[MikeHalloran]

This is not a homework site.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[iflyhigh]

im asking for help not for an answer...

this is what ive gotten so far

surface temp = 14 degrees C
dew point temp = 2 degrees C
temp difference = 12 degrees c

so now do i divide it bt -3 and get -4 and multiply it by 100?

 

[berkshire]

iflyhigh
This site will give you more information than you need to know about lapse rates both wet and dry.

http://daphne.palomar.edu/jthorngren/adiabatic_processes.htm

read that and then do your homework.