The following is a scanned version of an AIAA meeting publication.   It is my first airborne temperature profiler publication, and it presents the idea that vertical compression (i.e., a thinning inversion layer) can trigger CAT.   I still think this idea has merit, based on an abundance of observational evidence that appears to support it.  For the past 18 years I've been waiting for theoretical dynamical atmosperhic modelers to either shoot it down or validate it.
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