Atmospheric instabilityAtmospheric instability is a condition where the Earth's atmosphere is considered to be unstable and as a result local weather is highly variable through distance and time. Atmospheric stability is a measure of the atmosphere's tendency to discourage vertical motion, and vertical motion is directly correlated to different types of weather systems and their severity. In unstable conditions, a lifted thing, such as a parcel of air will be warmer than the surrounding air. Because it is warmer, it is less dense and is prone to further ascent.
Heat fluxIn physics and engineering, heat flux or thermal flux, sometimes also referred to as heat flux density, heat-flow density or heat flow rate intensity, is a flow of energy per unit area per unit time. Its SI units are watts per square metre (W/m2). It has both a direction and a magnitude, and so it is a vector quantity. To define the heat flux at a certain point in space, one takes the limiting case where the size of the surface becomes infinitesimally small.
Stoney unitsIn physics the Stoney units form a system of units named after the Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney, who first proposed them in 1881. They are the earliest example of natural units, i.e., a coherent set of units of measurement designed so that chosen physical constants fully define and are included in the set. The constants that Stoney used to define his set of units is the following:[ Astrophysics, clocks and fundamental constants, by Karshenboim and Peik, p.
Théorème de la variance totaleEn théorie des probabilités, le théorème de la variance totale ou formule de décomposition de la variance, aussi connu sous le nom de Loi d'Eve, stipule que si X et Y sont deux variables aléatoires sur un même espace de probabilité, et si la variance de Y est finie, alors Certains auteurs appellent cette relation formule de variance conditionnelle. Dans un langage peut-être mieux connu des statisticiens que des spécialistes en probabilité, les deux termes sont respectivement les composantes "non-expliquée" et "expliquée" de la variance (cf.
