Chavas and Peters (2023, BAMS): Static energy deserves greater emphasis in the meteorology community.

<p>Excel file for Figure 1 and MATLAB code + data for Figures 2 and 3 of the manuscript Chavas and Peters (2023) submitted to Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). Project abstract: Potential temperature and static energy are useful quantities for understanding the properties of air in our atmosphere. While both concepts are used widely in the climate community, static energy is used relatively little in the meteorology community, a contrast that is evident in both American Meteorological Society journal publications and in introductory textbooks. Here we highlight this contrast and emphasize key conceptual benefits of static energy. Static energy is an intuitive and tangible quantity that describes changes in temperature in terms of conversions among different forms of energy. This intuition can help explain basic atmospheric science concepts, such as the dry adiabatic lapse rate, to the introductory student and the established scientist alike. Bridging this gap between the weather and climate science communities is important as these communities must work together to understand and predict changing weather patterns in a warming world.</p>