Reply to the Comments of Olivier Pauluis to the paper "A Third-Law Isentropic Analysis of a Simulated Hurricane"

Abstract

A careful reading of old articles puts Olivier Pauluis' criticisms concerning the definition of isentropic processes in terms of a potential temperature closely associated with the entropy of moist air, together with the third principle of thermodynamics, into perspective.

V1: Submitted first on the 28th of April 2018 for publication in the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 17 pages, 3 coloured figures. V2: Accepted for publication on the 22th of August, 2018 + add some links in the old bibliography

References in corpus (3)

• Exergy in meteorology: Definition and properties of moist-air available enthalpy
• A Third-Law Isentropic Analysis of a Simulated Hurricane
• Relative information entropy in cosmology: The problem of information entanglement

Cited by in corpus (4)

• The climate system and the second law of thermodynamics
• On moist potential temperatures and their ability to characterize differences in the properties of air parcels
• Definition of the moist-air exergy norm: a comparison with existing "moist energy norms"
• Towards the use of conservative thermodynamic variables in data assimilation: a case study using ground-based microwave radiometer measurements