A temperature inversion is mainly an inversion of the?

increases with height

In meteorology, an inversion is a deviation from the normal change of an atmospheric property with altitude. It almost always refers to a temperature inversion, i.e., an increase in temperature with...

A layer in the atmosphere in which temperature increases with altitude.

It increases ambient temperatures above normal, it traps contaminants near ground level, and it disallows rapid transfer of gases across the ""membrane".

I'm not sure if "temperature inversion" was the intended term here because that would be a strange thing to try to prevent. Temperature inversions in the troposphere are simply when the temperature...