| The two
visualizations at right represent data in the lower atmosphere (the
troposphere) as measured by a radiosonde (a weather balloon that has a
radio transmitter attached). Data such as temperature (the black line
on the right of the graph) and the dewpoint temperature (the black line
on the left of the graph) are plotted here on two different types of
graphs:
- Stuve: in this graphical representation, the temperature
and the dewpoint are plotted with the temperature along the x-axis and
the pressure (in millibars) along the y-axis. In the case of the Stuve
diagram, the temperature lines are shown vertically.
- Skew-T: in this graphical representation, the same data is
plotted, but the temperature lines are represented diagonally.
How do these two graphs -- which represent the exact same data --
provide different insights into the meteorological data? |
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