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Hertz thermodynamic diagram for aerology

Hertz thermodynamic diagram for aerology (catalog S227) · Hertz graphic method

Made by
Heinrich Hertz
Year
1884
Field
Meteorology and climate
Kind
Computing chart
Room
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Hertz thermodynamic diagram for aerology
Plate from Hertz 1884, Graphische Methode zur Bestimmung der adiabatischen Zustandsänderungen feuchter Luft, Meteorologische Zeitschrift 1Internet Archive, Gerstein - University of Toronto

See the original page — Fig. 28, folding plate between pp. 201 and 203 (archive leaves n209, left half, and n210, right half)

Published 1884/1891 (A) and both Hertz (1894) and Abbe (1916) died long before 1955 (B ended 1986 at the latest).

The data it needs

  • pressure position · quantitative · mm Hg
  • temperature position · quantitative · degC
  • water_total parameter · quantitative · g/kg
  • stage derived regime · categorical · four named stages

Built in 6 steps, as its maker described

paper XIV, pp. 198-211; folding plate Fig. 28

Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

18 other forms share this skeleton

Source

Hertz 1884, Graphische Methode zur Bestimmung der adiabatischen Zustandsänderungen feuchter Luft, Meteorologische Zeitschrift 1

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