Scenario 2 If the atmospheric temperature decreases more slowly with altitude than indicated by the ALR, a volume of warm air released near ground level will rise in the ambient cooler air, cooling at the alr as it rise, until at some level it is no longer warmer than its surroundings at which point it will then cease to rise Scenario 3 If the existing temperature profile and the alr happen to be the same there will be a neutral condition that neither forces the warm air upward nor traps it near the earthScenario 2 If the atmospheric temperature decreases more slowly with altitude than indicated by the ALR, a volume of warm air released near ground level will rise in the ambient cooler air, cooling at the ALR as it rise, until at some level it is no longer warmer than its surroundings, at which point it will then cease to rise. Scenario 3 If the existing temperature profile and the ALR happen to be the same, there will be a neutral condition that neither forces the warm air upward nor traps it near the earth