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).[reply]

can anybody else verify the definition used here?

"The temperature gradient is a dimensional quantity expressed in units of degrees (on a particular temperature scale) per unit time. The SI unit is kelvin per second (K/s). It can be found in the formula for dQ/dt, the rate of heat transfer per second."

i might be unaware of this specific definition, but isn't a temperature gradient normally defined as the change in temperature in a direction (K/m)? also, wouldn't a better analogy would be fourier's law?

-hope i did this right 5.29.227.50 (talk) 01:12, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]