1.8 CF Standard Names: Air Equivalent Potential Temperature (air_equivalent_potential_temperature)

Record Label : air_equivalent_potential_temperature

Record Title : Air Equivalent Potential Temperature

CF Standard Name : air_equivalent_potential_temperature

Record Description : The "equivalent potential temperature" is a thermodynamic quantity, with its natural logarithm proportional to the entropy of moist air, that is conserved in a reversible moist adiabatic process. Reference: AMS Glossary http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Equivalent_potential_temperature. It is the temperature of a parcel of air if all the moisture contained in it were first condensed, releasing latent heat, before moving the parcel dry adiabatically to a standard pressure, typically representative of mean sea level pressure. To specify the standard pressure to which the quantity applies, provide a scalar coordinate variable with standard name reference_pressure.

Canonical Units : K