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    A high-pressure area, high, or anticyclone, is an area near the surface of a planet where the atmospheric pressure is greater than the pressure in the...
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  • Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous to human life and property. Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations...
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    expansion fan Ben-Dor, G. (2007). Shock Wave Reflection Phenomena. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Bibcode:2007swrp.book.....B. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-71382-1...
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  • In engineering, physics, and chemistry, the study of transport phenomena concerns the exchange of mass, energy, charge, momentum and angular momentum...
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    : 445  Gauge pressure (also spelled gage pressure) is the pressure relative to the ambient pressure. Various units are used to express pressure. Some of these...
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    weather (such as cloudy, windy, with possible rain or storms), while high-pressure areas are associated with lighter winds and clear skies. Winds circle...
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    Fragmentation of Rings and Shells: The Legacy of N.F. Mott (Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena), Springerlink, ISBN 978-3-540-27144-4. Amazon.com. Retrieved 12-05-2009...
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    Halder, Gregory J.; Chupas, Peter J. (2008-07-18). "Guest-Dependent High Pressure Phenomena in a Nanoporous Metal−Organic Framework Material". Journal of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Pressure measurement
    Pressure measurement is the measurement of an applied force by a fluid (liquid or gas) on a surface. Pressure is typically measured in units of force...
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  • extraction from porous rock). It is also observed in natural phenomena. Capillary pressure is defined as: p c = p non-wetting phase − p wetting phase {\displaystyle...
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    could be liquefied at 31 °C at a pressure of 73 atm, but not at a slightly higher temperature, even under pressures as high as 3000 atm. Solving the above...
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    precipitation. They are also known as subtropical ridges or highs. It is a high-pressure area at the divergence of trade winds and the westerlies. A likely...
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  • Thumbnail for Solar phenomena
    Solar phenomena are natural phenomena which occur within the atmosphere of the Sun. They take many forms, including solar wind, radio wave flux, solar...
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  • Thumbnail for Hydrostatics
    blood pressure), and many other fields. Hydrostatics offers physical explanations for many phenomena of everyday life, such as why atmospheric pressure changes...
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    specialized gun designed to generate extremely high velocities. It is usually used to study high-speed impact phenomena (hypervelocity research), such as the formation...
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  • Thumbnail for Mesoscale meteorology
    synoptic-scale systems like high and low-pressure areas. However, smaller and potentially hazardous meteorological phenomena were not well-captured by the...
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  • Thumbnail for Glossary of meteorology
    thunderstorm), among other phenomena. They are created when a center of low pressure develops within a system of high pressure surrounding it. storm cell...
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  • investigation, most UFOs are identified as known objects or atmospheric phenomena, while a small number remain unexplained. While unusual sightings have...
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    the total mass of water vapor and aerosols, and is where most weather phenomena occur. From the planetary surface of the Earth, the average height of...
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  • Thumbnail for Synoptic scale meteorology
    of mid-latitude depressions (e.g. extratropical cyclones). Most high- and low-pressure areas seen on weather maps (such as surface weather analyses) are...
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