Earth:Wet-bulb potential temperature

Short description: Type of temperature measurement

Wet-bulb potential temperature, sometimes referred to as pseudo wet-bulb potential temperature, is the temperature that a parcel of air at any level would have if, starting at the wet-bulb temperature, it were brought at the saturated adiabatic lapse rate to the standard pressure of 1,000 mbar.

This temperature is conservative with respect to reversible adiabatic changes.

See also

• Wet-bulb temperature
• Potential temperature
• Atmospheric thermodynamics
• Equivalent temperature
• Equivalent potential temperature

External links

• AMS Glossary

• Oxford Index