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    Contour line (redirect from Contour lines)
    or map; an isopleth or contour line of pressure. More accurately, isobars are lines drawn on a map joining places of equal average atmospheric pressure...
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    Isobars are atoms (nuclides) of different chemical elements that have the same number of nucleons. Correspondingly, isobars differ in atomic number (or...
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  • known as geostrophy). The geostrophic wind is directed parallel to isobars (lines of constant pressure at a given height). This balance seldom holds exactly...
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    to the free floating piston being allowed to rise making the process an isobaric process or constant pressure process. This Process Path is a straight horizontal...
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    back counterclockwise near the surface of Earth blowing inward across isobars (lines of equal pressure) when compared to the winds in frictionless flow well...
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  • nuclides on an odd isobaric chain except one have a lower-energy neighbor to which they can decay by beta decay. See Mattauch isobar rule. (123Te is expected...
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    first form of the modern weather map when created in the 19th century. Isobars, lines of equal pressure, when drawn on such a map, give a contour map showing...
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    height. However, if a horizontal temperature gradient exists along isobars, the isobars will also vary with the temperature. In the mid-latitudes there often...
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    data points on the west and southern coasts. These continent-scale isobaric lines allowed Todd and his staff to draw synoptic charts that in the early...
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    constant density (isopycnic surfaces) and surfaces of constant pressure (isobaric surfaces) are not aligned. The material derivative of the local vorticity...
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  • rainband arrives, the clouds moving from left to right roughly along isobar lines, but this is often followed by short periods of relative calm. During...
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  • sometimes used to describe other lines of constant value) A line of constant value on a map or chart. Examples include isobar (equal barometric pressure),...
    526 bytes (82 words) - 23:58, 3 July 2020
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    analyzing isobars (lines of equal pressure), isallobars (lines of equal pressure change), isotherms (lines of equal temperature), and isotachs (lines of equal...
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    topography on which altitudes (more precisely geopotentials) of the main isobaric surfaces (for example, 900, 800, and 700 millibars) counted off from sea...
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    squall lines also are analyzed on surface weather analyses. Isobaric analysis is performed on these maps, which involves the construction of lines of equal...
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    line. Drip lines are defined for protons and neutrons at the extreme of the proton-to-neutron ratio; at p:n ratios at or beyond the drip lines, no bound...
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  • pressures that occur above 40,000 feet (12 km). The lines of equal air pressure are called isobars. Isotherms are the lines of equal air temperature. v t e...
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    transfer is considered as heat removed from or work done by the system. Isobaric : Pressure in that part of the cycle will remain constant. (P=constant...
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    using thermodynamic relationship between thermodynamic properties. In an isobaric process, the pressure remains constant, so the heat interaction is the...
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    squall lines also are analyzed on surface weather analyses. Isobaric analysis is performed on these maps, which involves the construction of lines of equal...
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