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potential temperature

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potential temperature [pə′ten·chəl ′tem·prə·chər]
(thermodynamics)
The temperature that would be reached by a compressible fluid if it were adiabatically compressed or expanded to a standard pressure, usually 1 bar.


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the potential temperature in the layer locally decreases with height.
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