Climate as a compressible gas under gravity (RealNSE).
A perfect gas fills an extended rectangle, heated from below (hot wall T_hot)
and cooled on top (cold wall T_cold), under a constant downward gravity g;
the side walls are periodic, the top/bottom walls free-slip and impermeable.
Heated gas at the bottom becomes buoyant and rises, cooled gas at the top
sinks — the deterministic equations organise this into convection cells,
the overturning that carries heat upward in every real atmosphere.
rho_t + div m = 0 | m_t + div(m v) + grad p − nu lap v = rho g | e_t + div(e v) + p div v = nu |grad v|²,
p = gamma e = gamma rho T, gamma = 1. Colour = temperature (blue cold → red hot); white dots = tracers.
Vertical profiles (horizontal averages vs height, value increasing rightward): temperature (red), density (cyan), turbulent dissipation (yellow).