Available Potential Energy and the Maintenance of the General Circulation
Available Potential Energy and the Maintenance of the General Circulation is a scholarly work by Edward Norton Lorenz, published in 1955 in ''Tellus''. The main subjects of the publication include energy budget, environmental science, potential energy, atmospheric sciences, energy, physics, mechanics, stratification, potential temperature, peak oil, meteorology, methane emissions, kinetic energy, Available energy, and adiabatic process. The available potential energy of the atmosphere may be defined as the difference between the total potential energy and the minimum total potential energy which could result from any adiabatic redistribution of mass.