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It is a difference in pressure
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a difference in pressure across a distance
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Where on a weather map wind speeds are related to?
On a weather map, the lines of equal pressure (isobars) also illustrate the pressure gradient or change of pressure per distance. The higher the pressure gradient, the higher the winds speed. Thus, when the isobars are close together, the gradient is high, and winds are higher than where the isobars are further apart. Wind can also be affected by local considerations, hills, valleys, and buildings can modify the gradient wind's direction and speed.
As the pressure gradient increases wind velocity increase decrease or remains the same?
As the pressure gradient increases, the wind velocity increases. This is because a larger pressure gradient indicates a greater difference in pressure between two points, leading to a stronger force exerted on the air. This stronger force results in faster wind velocities.
What always occurs down a hydrostatic pressure gradient?
Filtration
What is Flowing air responding to the difference between higher and lower pressure is responding to what?
pressure gradient
Does a middle latitude cyclone have a steeper pressure gradient than a tornado?
No. A tornado produces the steepest pressure gradient of any weather phenomenon. An intense mid-latitude cyclone might have an overall pressure deficit comparable to a weak tornado, but that pressure gradient is spread out over several hundred miles. A tornado produces at least that much of a pressure drop over only a few hundred feet.
A pressure difference is also known as an?
pressure gradient
Why do winds not simply flow down a pressure gradient?
Why don't winds simply flow down a pressure gradient?
a pressure difference is also known as an _____?
pressure gradient
What is a blood pressure hill?
blood pressure gradient
What is fluid gradient?
Usually a fluid gradient refers to the pressure gradient in any kind of fluid. It is a quantity that shows which direction and how fast the pressure changes around a location.
Is the pressure gradient equal to gas flow over resistance?
no gas flow is equal to pressure gradient over resistance
The blood pressure gradient from the aorta to the capillaries is greater than the blood pressure gradient from the venules to the right atrium?
True
What is a pressure gradient and how is it related to air movement?
Pressure gradient is the rate of pressure change as you change position, not just the difference between the lowest pressure and the highest pressure, but how great (or small) the physical distance between them. Since it the pressure difference that make air flow (wind) the greater the pressure gradient, the greater the wind.
What generates winds?
pressure gradient
Which weather condition most directly determines wind speeds at Earths surface?
Air pressure Gradient
Pressure changes ocurring over a given distance?
Pressure Gradient
What is a blood pressures?
blood pressure gradient
