Thermal Inversion, Paragliding in Tenerife

In the anticyclones the air descends generating greater pressure increasing its temperature. This generates a stable layer where the temperature of the air increases with the height, instead of decreasing as it would be normal. In the Canary Islands this layer delimits two quite different currents of air; underneath the fresh and humid lower Trade Wind controlled by the isobars and above the warm and dry upper Trade Wind that obeys to the general current of the West.
In Tenerife it is very easy to detect the height of this inversion simply by observing the clouds that embrace Mount Teide.
"The Flying Islands" explains what happens in both parts of the inversion when the wind crashes with the relief.
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