Schneider, T., K. L. Smith, P. A. O'Gorman, and C. C. Walker, 2006: A climatology of tropospheric zonal - mean water vapor fields and fluxes
in isentropic coordinates.
On the use and significance
of isentropic potential vorticity maps.
Not adiabatic,
not isentropic, but work, from the gas volume shrinking.
Pierrehumbert, R. T. and Yang, H. 1993: Global chaotic mixing
on isentropic surfaces.
If Isentropic can actually do that the power storage problem is essentially solved.
The real atmosphere stays close to local equilibrium and the processes considered are not only nearly adiabatic but mostly also
nearly isentropic.
Criticality is a measure of
extratropical isentropic slope and when defined appropriately its value is often close to one for Earth's climate.
O'Gorman, P. A., N. Lamquin, T. Schneider, and M. S. Singh, 2011: The relative humidity in
an isentropic advection - condensation model: Limited poleward influence and properties of subtropical minima.
The difference in temperature [not heat] of atmosphere due change in elevation [or adiabatic nature of an atmosphere]- is what meant by
a Isentropic process.