Talk:Temperature gradient

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I re-wrote the article entirely to

• add information as well as pointers to other pages.

• remove the paragraph about "difference in temperature caused by fluids working with or against gravity" which was wrong or meaningless: the presence of particular gases at a certain altitude in the atmosphere is linked to their temperature (kinetic energy), not to the temperature gradient.

• replace the references by more appropriate ones, giving credit to early landmark publications as well as recent overviews (the ones originally provided were either incorrect or too simplistic).

• remove the stub pointer.

--Michel M Verstraete 22:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC).