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  2. Barometric formula - Wikipedia

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    Pressure as a function of the height above the sea level. There are two equations for computing pressure as a function of height. The first equation is applicable to the atmospheric layers in which the temperature is assumed to vary with altitude at a non null lapse rate of : = [,, ()] ′, The second equation is applicable to the atmospheric layers in which the temperature is assumed not to ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Scale height - Wikipedia

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    The pressure (force per unit area) at a given altitude is a result of the weight of the overlying atmosphere. If at a height of z the atmosphere has density ρ and pressure P, then moving upwards an infinitesimally small height dz will decrease the pressure by amount dP, equal to the weight of a layer of atmosphere of thickness dz.

  6. Torr - Wikipedia

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    The torr (symbol: Torr) is a unit of pressure based on an absolute scale, defined as exactly ⁠ 1 / 760 ⁠ of a standard atmosphere (101325 Pa). Thus one torr is exactly ⁠ 101325 / 760 ⁠ pascals (≈ 133.32 Pa).

  7. Bar (unit) - Wikipedia

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    In scuba diving, bar is also the most widely used unit to express pressure, e.g. 200 bar being a full standard scuba tank, and depth increments of 10 metre of seawater being equivalent to 1 bar of pressure. Many engineers worldwide use the bar as a unit of pressure because, in much of their work, using pascals would involve using very large ...

  8. 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).

  9. 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.