• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Question: Definition of Saturation Wet-bulb Potential Temperature

gdlewen

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Hi,

I am looking for a formal definition of Saturation Wet-bulb Potential Temperature and how it is calculated. Originally I assumed the obvious and considered a saturated parcel (Tair =Twb) brought moist-adiabatically to the 1000mb reference pressure to get the saturation wet-bulb potential temperature.

After using this for a while I am not sure I am correct, as the results I am getting just seem off. (The gory details of how I am using it won't be especially helpful--either I am using the correct definition and my intuition is faulty, or I am wrong and need to keep looking for the correct definition.)

Before posting, I started doing a lot of checking, and in the literature the term "saturation wet-bulb potential temperature" is generally used without definition, which suggests the term is obvious to the intended audience and needs no formal definition. Even as far back as 1962, Browning & Ludlam used it without definition in Airflow in Convective Storms (Quart. J. Royal Met. Soc.)

So in short: is the definition of "saturation wet-bulb potential temperature" I am using (posted above) correct? Thanks for any help.
 
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