Thermal Troughs, Adiabatic Processes, And A Warm End To The Week

Good evening everybody! Today was beautiful! Most locations around Western Washington got into the upper 70s to lower 80s, and some areas east of the crest got much warmer! The Dalles was 96 degrees at 5 pm, but Buoy 46026 off the Columbia River was only 58. The Pacific Ocean sure cools things off! As […]

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ATMOS 301: Thermodynamics of Moist Air

Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:00 p.m. We’ve already gone through a couple of variables representing the amount of water vapor in the air. These are e, the partial pressure of water vapor, and T_v, the virtual temperautre, which is equal to 1/ε*T. There are some we haven’t gone over though, so I’ll go over them […]

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