Re: (ATM) ATM planetary scope window

Roger Moss (roger.moss@eng.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 23 Aug 1995 09:44:51 +0100

>In a message dated 95-08-22 10:03:11 EDT, you write:
>
>>peak to peak variation of temperature
>>within it of more than 1.5 K.
>
> Huh? Do you mean 1.5 degrees Kelvin? It seems reasonable to assume
>that the variation of temp would be less than 1500 deg -- in any units. [:-)
>
>Peter Augello

There is NO SUCH THING as "degrees Kelvin", there are degrees Centigrade, degrees Fahrenheit and Kelvins, for which the abbreviation is K. I used K as I had no easy way of putting a degrees symbol in the email: there is a symbol ° but it will probably look different depending on what font people are using.

(and for people who haven't met them, a temperature in Kelvin is the temperature in degrees Centigrade + 273.15. In fact it is defined such that 0 K is "absolute zero" and 273.16 K is at the triple point of water, 0.01 degrees C).

So yes, what I mean is the equivalent of a 1.5 degrees Centigrade variation in temperature.

Roger Moss