Barometry
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UNIT - PRESSURE & WIND
Materials required: Question Packets w/Keys, Notes, Textbook, Access to videos below
Reference Tables: Pages 1, 4, 12, 13, 14
OUTLINE
Temperature & Pressure
PRESSURE (particularly Air Pressure)
Formula Pressure = Force / Area
Air Pressure
Pressure
ISOLINE MAPS
Isotherms - lines connecting points of equal temperature
Isobars - lines connecting points of equal pressure
Gradients - the rate of change of the quantity in question
WIND !
WIND PATTERNS
WHAT MAKES THE WIND - move from High Pressure to Low Pressure
What makes the wind
CORIOLIS EFFECT/FORCE - Why winds curve to the right in the N. Hemi. and curve to the left in the S. Hemi
Coriolis Effect
LAND AND SEA BREEZES - due to differential heating of different Earth surfaces
Land and Sea Breezes
JETSTREAMS - Why Storms follow the paths that they do
GRADIENT
WIND