Explanation#
Why the diagram is the shape it is. Nothing here is needed to use tephpy — the
tutorials and how-to guides
stand on their own — but a tephigram is an unusual chart, and its
oddities all follow from decisions worth understanding.
Where a convention comes from a published chart rather than from the mathematics, the page says so and cites it; References collects those sources.
The coordinate choice, the perpendicular grid, and the missing pressure axis. |
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What happens to a lifted parcel, and why the energies are areas. |