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Skew-T Log-P (xkcd) (xkcd.com)

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I of course understand the joke, but I'll give someone else the pleasure of explaining it...

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[–] ERPAdvocate 5 points 4 days ago

Finally something I can apply my expensive ChemE degree on :')

These diagrams were always the worst to use, far too busy and usually printed on cheap paper making it impossible to distinguish one line from the other.

Basically its a diagram is relating the energy required to change the state of something (usually water) and while in theory is amazing and clean in allowing you to determining enthalpy necessary for a state at a constant pressure.

In practice though can get really messy especially with more variables in play, as shown with the temperature decreasing as the balloon altitude increases.