I’m committing one of the cardinal sins of weather blogging here: putting a high-impact, but uncertain, forecast in the title of a weather blog. I truly believe that this is an unethical practice, and that those who do it are trading a little part of their journalistic soul in exchange for a few more clicks. […]
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 […]