Discussion
Which measurement does a planimeter make on such a diagram?
Answer: C
A planimeter traces the boundary of a region and reports its area, which on an area preserving diagram converts directly to energy per unit mass. Before computers this was how convective available potential energy was obtained from a plotted ascent. The technique is obsolete operationally but explains why the area property was considered so important when the diagrams were designed. Checking the units of each quantity catches a wrong formula before the arithmetic begins.
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