Look up: Pressure-gradient


  1. Pressure Gradient
    This is the force responsible for starting a parcel of air moving. Air moving from high to low pressure.
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  2. pressure gradient
    1. a scale of pressure differences in which there is a uniform variation of pressure from point to point. For example, the pressure gradient of a column of water is about 0.433 pounds per square inch per foot (9.794 kilopascals per meter) of vertical elevation. The normal pressure gradient in a fo...
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  3. Pressure Gradient
    The rate of change of pressure in an imaginary horizontal plane running between areas of high and low pressure on a weather map.
    Found op http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com/glossary/

  4. Pressure gradient
    In atmospheric sciences (meteorology, climatology and related fields), the pressure gradient (typically of air, more generally of any fluid) is a physical quantity that describes in which direction and at what rate the pressure changes the most rapidly around a particular location. The pressure gra...
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  5. PRESSURE GRADIENT
    The amount of pressure change that occurs over a fixed distance at a fixed altitude.
    Found op http://www.weather.com/glossary/p.html

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