EA: EQUIV_POTENTIAL_TEMPERATURE
Status:
SUBM 2009/06/04
Concept definition:
The <<
AIR_TEMPERATURE
>> an <
AIR_PARCEL
> would reach if all the water vapour in the parcel were to condense, releasing its latent heat, and the parcel were then brought adiabatically to a pressure of 100 kPa; equivalent potential temperature.
Attribute value type:
REAL
Unit equivalence class label:
THERMO_TEMPERATURE
Reference type:
IR
Reference:
[
HESS
]
Supplemental references:
[
JMBL
, "temperature potential"]
Group membership:
ATMOSPHERE
TEMPERATURE
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