Back تدرج حراري Arabic Gradient tèrmic Catalan Temperaturgradient German Θερμοβαθμίδα Greek Gradiente térmico Spanish شیب دمایی Persian Gradient#Gradient de température French Temperaturala gradiento IO Gradiente di temperatura Italian 温度勾配 Japanese
A temperature gradient is a physical quantity that describes in which direction and at what rate the temperature changes the most rapidly around a particular location. The temperature spatial gradient is a vector quantity with dimension of temperature difference per unit length. The SI unit is kelvin per meter (K/m).
Temperature gradients in the atmosphere are important in the atmospheric sciences (meteorology, climatology and related fields).