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Air pressure depends on the density of the air?

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True, that's what we are told by meteorologists. Density in turn is a function of temperature. Hot air is lighter / less dense than cold air.

Anticyclones / high pressure areas are made of cold air, which is in part due to the lack of clouds (not only) allowing the calories to be released into the empty space instead of being kept into low atmosphere by greenhouse effect.

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