On the energetics of adiabatic vertical mixing

• Book ID: 104629299
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 157 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-8314
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00120716

✦ Synopsis

If the center of gravity of a column of air is raised by adiabatic mixing, as in the case of initially stable air, its top level is lowered somewhat; the reverse takes place in the opposite case of initial unstability. It is shown that, although the change of height of the air column is only slight, it has the effect of compensating by about 70% the energy input or output, respectively, involved in the mixing process.