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  2. Pressure-wind relationship calculations for tropical cyclones

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    The interchangeability of pressure and wind allows for the two to be used to give equivalencies for the public. [7] Pressure-wind relations can be used when information is incomplete, forcing forecasters to rely on the Dvorak Technique. [6] Some storms may have particularly high or low pressures that do not match with their wind speed.

  3. Hypsometric equation - Wikipedia

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    = pressure . In meteorology, and are isobaric surfaces. In radiosonde observation, the hypsometric equation can be used to compute the height of a pressure level given the height of a reference pressure level and the mean virtual temperature in between. Then, the newly computed height can be used as a new reference level to compute the height ...

  4. Torr - Wikipedia

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    In honour of Torricelli, the torr was defined as a unit of pressure equal to one millimeter of mercury at 0 °C. However, since the acceleration due to gravity – and thus the weight of a column of mercury – is a function of elevation and latitude (due to the rotation and non- sphericity of the Earth), this definition is imprecise and varies ...

  5. Baroclinity - Wikipedia

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    In fluid dynamics, the baroclinity (often called baroclinicity) of a stratified fluid is a measure of how misaligned the gradient of pressure is from the gradient of density in a fluid. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In meteorology a baroclinic flow is one in which the density depends on both temperature and pressure (the fully general case).

  6. Pressure altitude - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft Mode “C” transponders report the pressure altitude to air traffic control; corrections for atmospheric pressure variations are applied by the recipient of the data. The relationship between static pressure and pressure altitude is defined in terms of properties of the ISA.

  7. Newmark's influence chart - Wikipedia

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    The procedure for obtaining the vertical pressure at any point below a loaded area is as follows: Verify the depth z below the uniformly loaded area where the stress increase is to be obtained. Plot the plan of the loaded area with a scale of z equal to the unit length of the chart (AB).

  8. Dvorak technique - Wikipedia

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    Common developmental patterns seen during tropical cyclone development, and their Dvorak-assigned intensities. The Dvorak technique (developed between 1969 and 1984 by Vernon Dvorak) is a widely used system to estimate tropical cyclone intensity (which includes tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricane/typhoon/intense tropical cyclone intensities) based solely on visible and infrared ...

  9. TORRO scale - Wikipedia

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    The scale was tested from 1972 to 1975 and was made public at a meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1975. The scale sets T0 as the equivalent of 8 on the Beaufort scale and is related to the Beaufort scale (B), up to 12 on the Beaufort scale, by the formula: B = 2 (T + 4) and conversely: T = B/2 - 4