Dry/moist adiabatic lapse rate, potential temperature θ; CAPE, LFC/LCL; controls convection and storm formation.
Atmospheric thermodynamics
Related concepts
- Thermohaline circulation (AMOC)
- Lebesgue integral
- ENSO / El Niño Southern Oscillation
- Rossby waves
- Geostrophic balance & Coriolis
- Foucault pendulum
- Rossby-wave dispersion omega = -beta k_x/(k^2); barotropic-Rossby framework
- Hydrostatic equilibrium (Laplace 1799)
- Clausius-Clapeyron atm (1834)
- Hadley cell (Hadley 1735)
- Ekman (1905)
- Lorenz attractor (1963)
- Bjerknes circulation (1898)