isobar
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Do you know your cold fronts from your isobars?
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2022
When isobars — lines of constant pressure — are packed tightly together, and move into the D.C. region rapidly, this leads to a strong pressure surge, generating powerful wind gusts.
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2022
Its pressure isobars are spaced far apart; there is little wind speed.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2018
Thursday's approaching weather meant plenty of references to isobars and pressure gradients, green-lighting Clampett to remind us he's a pilot.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 13, 2010
I’d been thinking about convection currents, isobars and isotherms.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Vocabulary lists containing isobar
Physical Geography - High School
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Earth Science - Middle School
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