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| '''Equivalent potential temperature''', commonly referred to as '''theta-e''' <math>\left( \theta_e \right)</math>, is a quantity related to the [[instability|stability]] of a column of [[air]] in the [[Earth's atmosphere|atmosphere]].
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| <math>\theta_e</math> is the [[temperature]] a parcel of air would reach if all the water vapor in the parcel were to [[condense]], releasing its [[latent heat]], and the parcel was brought [[adiabatic]]ally to a standard reference pressure, usually 1000 [[hectopascal|hPa]] (1000 [[millibar|mbar]]) which is roughly equal to [[atmospheric pressure]] at [[sea level]]. In stable conditions, <math>\theta_e</math> increases with altitude. If <math>\theta_e</math> decreases with height, [[convection]] can occur. The comparison of the equivalent potential temperature of parcels of air at different pressures thus provides a measure of the instability of the column of air.<ref>[http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/162/ www.theweatherprediction.com]</ref>
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| ==Explanation==
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| ===Stability===
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| Cool air is [[density|denser]] than warm air at the same pressure (see ''[[gas laws]]''). Like a ball balanced on top of a hill, denser [[fluid]] lying above less dense fluid is dynamically unstable: if cool air is positioned above warm air, the former will sink and the latter will rise, the two volumes of air passing around and through each other, and perhaps mixing to some extent, until a stable condition (with denser fluid below and lighter fluid above) is achieved. The temperature near the ceiling of a room is consistently warmer than that near the floor.
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| If a [[hydrostatic]] fluid is [[compressible]], the criterion for dynamic stability is not simply that denser fluid must lie below light fluid, but that small perturbations must tend to correct themselves. When lower fluid is raised up into upper fluid, (during which process the density of the lower fluid decreases due to the drop in pressure), stability requires that it ''remain'' denser than the upper fluid, so that gravity pulls it back toward its original position. The fluid is unstable if small perturbations tend to amplify themselves, i.e. if dense lower fluid, when displaced upward, expands enough to become lighter than the surrounding upper fluid, and therefore continues to move upward.
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| ===Potential temperature===
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| In the atmosphere, where vertical variation in pressure is much larger than in a room, the situation is complicated by adiabatic temperature change: as a parcel of air moves upward, the ambient pressure drops, causing the parcel to expand. Some of the [[internal energy]] of the parcel is used up in doing the [[work (physics)|work]] required to expand against the atmospheric pressure, so the temperature of the parcel drops, even though it has not lost any [[heat]]. Conversely, a sinking parcel is compressed and becomes warmer even though no heat is added.
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| Air at the top of a mountain is usually colder than the air in the valley below, but the arrangement is not unstable: if a parcel of air from the valley were somehow lifted up to the top of the mountain, when it arrived it would be even colder than the air already there, due to adiabatic cooling; it would be heavier than the ambient air, and would sink back toward its original position. Similarly, if a parcel of cold mountain-top air were to make the trip down to the valley, it would arrive warmer and lighter than the valley air, and would float back up the mountain.
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| So cool air lying on top of warm air can be stable after all (as long as the temperature decrease with height is less than the [[adiabatic lapse rate]]); the dynamically important quantity is not the temperature, but the [[potential temperature]]—the temperature the air would have if it were brought adiabatically to a reference pressure. The air around the mountain is stable because the air at the top, due to its lower pressure, has a higher potential temperature than the warmer air below.
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| ===Water vapor===
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| A parcel of air containing water vapor, if it rises far enough, cools to its [[dew point]]: it becomes saturated with water vapor. This occurs because the [[vapor pressure]] of water decreases at lower temperatures (see ''[[Clausius-Clapeyron relation]]''). If the parcel of air continues to rise, water vapor begins to condense into liquid droplets. The condensing water releases its latent heat to the surrounding air, partially offsetting the adiabatic cooling. A saturated parcel of air therefore cools less than a dry one would as it rises (its temperature changes with height at the [[moist adiabatic lapse rate]], which is smaller than the dry adiabatic lapse rate).
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| Saturated air can be unstable even though its potential temperature increases with height: if the warming due to condensation is enough that a parcel of saturated air which is displaced upward (and would otherwise cool to below the ambient temperature) ends up warmer (lighter) than the surrounding air, it will continue to rise. This is the reason for defining the ''equivalent potential temperature'', in analogy with the potential temperature: potential temperature is a temperature adjusted for potential warming due to adiabatic compression; equivalent potential temperature factors in potential warming due to condensation as well. For saturated air, or for air which is likely to be lifted high enough to reach saturation, it is the equivalent potential temperature which must increase with height in order to ensure stability.
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| ==Formula==
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| A number of approximate formulations are used for calculating equivalent potential temperature, since it is not easy to compute integrations along motion of the parcel. Bolton (1980) <ref>D Bolton, 1980: ''The Computation of Equivalent Potential Temperature''. Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 108, pp.1046-1053.</ref> gives review of such procedures with estimates of error. His best approximation formula is used when accuracy is needed:
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| :<math>\theta_e = \theta_{L} \exp \left[ \left( \frac{3036}{T_L} - 1.78 \right) r \left(1 + 0.448 r\right)\right]</math>
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| :<math>\theta_{L} = T \left(\frac{p_0}{p - e}\right)^{\kappa_d} \left(\frac{T}{T_L}\right)^{0.28 r}</math>
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| :<math>T_L = \frac{1}{ \frac{1}{T_d - 56} + \frac{\log_e(T/T_d)}{800} } + 56</math>
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| Where:
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| * <math>\theta_L</math> is (dry) potential temperature [K] at the [[lifted condensation level]] (LCL),
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| * <math>T_L</math> is (approximated) temperature [K] at LCL,
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| * <math>T</math> is temperature [K] of air at pressure <math>p</math>,
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| * <math>T_d</math> is dew point temperature at pressure <math>p</math>,
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| * <math>p</math> is pressure at the point [hPa or mbar],
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| * <math>p_0</math> is standard reference pressure (1000 hPa),
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| * <math>\kappa_d = R_d / c_{pd}</math> is the ratio of the specific gas constant to the specific heat of dry air at constant pressure (0.2854),
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| * <math>r</math> is mixing ratio of water vapor mass per mass [kg/kg] (sometimes value is given in [g/kg]<ref>{{Cite web
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| |url= http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/meetings/Upper-Air/ET-IOC-3/Doc5.pps#374,7,Data%20processing%20procedure
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| |work= E-[[AMDAR]] Evaluation | |
| |title= Data processing procedure
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| |author= [[Met Office]]
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| |publisher = [[World Meteorological Organisation]]
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| |accessdate=2009-08-02}}</ref> and that should be divided by 1000).
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| A little more theoretical formula is commonly used in literature like Holton (1972) <ref>J R Holton, ''An Introduction to Dynamical Meteorology''. Academic Press, 1972, 319 pages.</ref> when theoretical explanation is important:
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| :<math>\theta_e \approx \theta_L\exp\left[\frac{ r_s(T_L) L_v(T_L) }{ c_{pd} T_L }\right]</math>
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| Where:
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| * <math>r_s(T_L)</math> is saturated mixing ratio of water at temperature <math>T_L</math> which is approximately considered same to [[specific humidity]] in low temperature,
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| * <math>L_v(T_L)</math> is [[latent heat]] of evaporation at temperature <math>T_L</math> (2406 kJ/kg {at 40 °C} to 2501 kJ/kg {at 0 °C}), and
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| * <math>c_{pd}</math> is specific heat of dry air at constant pressure (1005.7 J/(kg·K)).
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| Further more simplified formula is used (in, for example, Stull 1988<ref>R B Stull, ''An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology'', Kluwer, 1988, 666 pages, ISBN 9027727694.</ref> §13.1 p. 546) for simplicity, if it is desirable to avoid computing <math>T_L</math>:
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| :<math>\theta_e = T_e \left( \frac{p_0}{p} \right)^\frac{R_d}{c_{pd}} \approx \left( T + \frac {L_v}{c_{pd}} r \right) \left( \frac{p_0}{p} \right)^\frac{R_d}{c_{pd}} </math>
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| Where:
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| * <math>T_e</math> = [[equivalent temperature]]
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| * <math>R_d</math> = specific gas constant for air (287.04 J/(kg·K))
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| == Usage ==
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| [[File:Verglas massif 1998 trajectoire humidité.png|thumb|Back trajectories of [[air mass]]es between December 31, 1997 and January 1998 which caused the [[North American Ice Storm of 1998]]]]
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| This applies on the [[Synoptic scale meteorology|synoptic scale]] for characterisation of air masses. For instance, in a study of the [[North American Ice Storm of 1998]], professors Gyakum ([[McGill University]], [[Montreal]]) and Roebber ([[Wisconsin University]], [[Milwaukee]]) have demonstrated that the air masses involved originated from high Arctic at an altitude of 300 to 400 hPa the previous week, went down toward the surface as they moved to the Tropics, then moved back up along the [[Mississippi Valley]] toward the [[St. Lawrence Valley]]. The back trajectories were evaluated using the constant equivalent potential temperatures.<ref name="Gya">{{Cite journal| format= pdf
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| |url= http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0493%282001%29129%3C2983%3ATISAOA%3E2.0.CO%3B2
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| |title= The 1998 Ice Storm, Analysis of a Planetary-Scale Event
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| |journal= [[Monthly Weather Review]]
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| |volume= 129
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| |issue= 12
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| |date=December 2001
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| |doi= 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<2983:TISAOA>2.0.CO;2
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| |pages=2983–2997
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| |first1= John R.
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| |last1= Gyakum
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| |first2= Paul J.
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| |last2= Roebber
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| |publisher= American Meteorological Society
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| |accessdate=19 June 2012
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| |bibcode = 2001MWRv..129.2983G }}.</ref>
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| In [[Mesoscale meteorology|mesoscale]], equivalent potential temperature is also a useful measure of the static stability of the unsaturated atmosphere. Under normal, stably stratified conditions, the potential temperature increases with height,
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| : <math>\frac{\partial \theta_e}{\partial z} > 0</math>
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| and vertical motions are suppressed. If the equivalent potential temperature decreases with height,
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| :<math>\frac{\partial \theta_e}{\partial z} < 0</math>
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| the atmosphere is unstable to vertical motions, and [[Atmospheric convection|convection]] is likely. Situations in which the equivalent potential temperature decreases with height, indicating instability in saturated air, are quite common.
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Meteorology]]
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| *[[Moist static energy]]
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| *[[Potential temperature]]
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| *[[Weather forecasting]]
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| ==Bibliography==
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| * M K Yau and R.R. Rogers, ''Short Course in Cloud Physics, Third Edition'', published by Butterworth-Heinemann, January 1, 1989, 304 pages. EAN 9780750632157 ISBN 0-7506-3215-1
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| == References ==
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| {{reflist}}
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| {{Meteorological variables}}
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| [[Category:Atmospheric thermodynamics]]
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