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Atmosphere examples

One executed example per breakthrough in Breakthroughs in Atmosphere, in chronological order, each with an asserted check of the result it shows. Download the Python source or notebook from each page. Atmosphere: units, equations and validation records units and limits; all examples use deterministic synthetic inputs and require no downloads.

Torricelli’s barometer (1643)

Torricelli's barometer (1643)

Pascal and Périer on the Puy de Dôme (1648)

Pascal and Périer on the Puy de Dôme (1648)

Halley’s barometric altitude (1686)

Halley's barometric altitude (1686)

Hadley’s circulation (1735)

Hadley's circulation (1735)

Dalton’s partial pressures (1802)

Dalton's partial pressures (1802)

Poisson’s adiabat (1823)

Poisson's adiabat (1823)

Magnus’s vapour-pressure formula (1844)

Magnus's vapour-pressure formula (1844)

Buys Ballot’s law (1857)

Buys Ballot's law (1857)

von Bezold’s potential temperature (1888)

von Bezold's potential temperature (1888)

Teisserenc de Bort’s stratosphere (1902)

Teisserenc de Bort's stratosphere (1902)

Bjerknes’s forecasting programme (1904)

Bjerknes's forecasting programme (1904)

Richardson’s turbulence criterion (1920)

Richardson's turbulence criterion (1920)

Richardson’s numerical forecast (1922)

Richardson's numerical forecast (1922)

Väisälä and Brunt’s buoyancy frequency (1925)

Väisälä and Brunt's buoyancy frequency (1925)

Rossby’s planetary waves (1939)

Rossby's planetary waves (1939)

Charney, Fjørtoft and von Neumann’s ENIAC forecast (1950)

Charney, Fjørtoft and von Neumann's ENIAC forecast (1950)