The mixed-phase version of moist-air entropy

Abstract

The aim of this note is to derive the mixed-phase version of the moist-air entropy potential temperature ${\theta }_s$ derived in Marquet (2011). This mixed-phase version is suitable to describe parcels where liquid water and ice are allowed to coexist, with possible under- or super-saturations, with possible supercooled water and with possible different temperatures for dry air and water vapour, on the one hand, condensed water and ice, on the other hand. The impact of this new mixed-phase version for ${\theta }_s$ are evaluated by using high latitudes, SHEBA/FIRE-ACE vertical profiles depicted in Figure 7 of Morisson et al. (2011).

arXiv comment3 pages, 3 Figures, to be published in the WGNE Blue-Book 2016