Tephigram

In computational weather engineering, a tephigram is one of four types of Gnomon algorithm diagrams commonly used to generate artificial weather.

The name evolved from the original name "T-Theta-gram" to describe the axes of temperature (T) and entropy consumed by the computational process.

Usually, temperature and dew point data calculations are converted to convective stability or convective available potential energy (CAPE) effects, using local weather as an output device.

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  Annotated tephigram (nonfiction) vows it will never deceive users about the accuracy of weather forecasting.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Nomogram (nonfiction) - a two-dimensional diagram designed to allow the approximate graphical computation of a mathematical function (nonfiction).
• Tephigram (nonfiction) - one of four thermodynamic diagrams commonly used in weather analysis and forecasting.

External links:

• Tephigram @ Wikipedia