• Geopotential height, also known as geopotential altitude or geopotential elevation, is a vertical coordinate (with dimension of length) representing the...
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    Elevation (redirect from Geometric height)
    when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight...
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  • Geopotential (symbol W) is the potential of the Earth's gravity field. It has SI units of square metre per square seconds (m2/s2). For convenience it is...
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    geopotential heights are used when creating forecasts and analyzing pressure systems. Geopotential heights represent the estimate of the real height of...
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  • H {\displaystyle H} = geopotential height at which pressure is calculated (m) H b {\displaystyle H_{b}} = geopotential height of reference level b (meters;...
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  • Drying height Dynamic height Ellipsoidal height Geocentric altitude Geopotential Height above mean sea level Height above average terrain Height above...
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    oscillation index is defined using the daily or monthly 1000 hPa geopotential height anomalies from latitudes 20° N to 90° N. The anomalies are projected...
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    geostrophic wind at a given pressure level flows along geopotential height contours on a map, and the geopotential thickness of a pressure layer is proportional...
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  • alternative for orthometric height or normal height. It can be computed (in SI units of metre) by dividing the location's geopotential number (symbol C, in square...
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  • of warmer air increases pressure levels which decreases poleward geopotential height gradients. As these gradients are the reason that cause west to east...
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    Contour line (redirect from Height Contours)
    constant density. An isoheight or isohypse is a line of constant geopotential height on a constant pressure surface chart. Isohypse and isoheight are...
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  • \nabla \cdot \mathbf {v} ,} (6) where Φ {\displaystyle \Phi } is the geopotential height. Writing the absolute vorticity as ζ a = ∇ × v + 2 Ω {\textstyle...
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    in the fields of atmospheric variables (like surface pressure or geopotential height, temperature, or wind velocity) which may either propagate (traveling...
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    of warmer air increases pressure levels which decreases poleward geopotential height gradients. As these gradients are the reason that cause west to east...
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    Arctic oscillation. Omega blocks are so-named because the isobars or geopotential height contours with which they are associated in the Northern Hemisphere...
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    contrasts play no role in its formation. Given a grid point field of geopotential height, storm tracks can be visualized by contouring its average standard...
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  • computer for the first time, using an observed field of 500 hPa geopotential height for the first timestep. This was one of the first successful instances...
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    respect to height, and thus the baroclinicity in the atmosphere can be simulated using the 500 mb (15 inHg) and 1,000 mb (30 inHg) geopotential height surfaces...
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    with an assumed linear distribution of absolute temperature T against geopotential altitude h. The other two values (pressure P and density ρ) are computed...
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    reference height is a geodetic, fixed point on the New Church of St. Alexander at Wallenhorst in the German state of Lower Saxony. The geopotential height of...
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    Geoid (redirect from Geoid height)
    orthometric heights, geopotential heights, and dynamic heights (see Geodesy). All points on a geoid surface have the same geopotential (the sum of gravitational...
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    one January, and one in March. Zonal mean temperature, wind, and geopotential height exert varying deviations from their normal values before and after...
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    measured Extreme points of Earth Geopotential height – Type of altitude above mean sea level Height above average terrain – Height based on large area surrounding...
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    {\varphi }}_{1}-{\boldsymbol {\varphi }}_{0}\right)\,,} where the φ are geopotential height fields with φ1 > φ0, f is the Coriolis parameter, and k is the upward-pointing...
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    a cyclonic northward deflection of the trade winds. Asiatic low Geopotential height Surface weather analysis The Hong Kong Observatory, Weather Map at...
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  • movement of Rossby waves (that is, the troughs and ridges of 500 hPa geopotential height) over a limited amount of time (a few days). In the 1950s, the first...
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    An example of 500 mbar geopotential height and absolute vorticity prediction from a numerical weather prediction model...
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    Ridge was characterized by a broad region of anomalously positive geopotential height on monthly to annual timescales. This persistent high pressure system...
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    The proportional symbol technique uses point symbols of different sizes (height, length, area, or volume) to represent quantitative statistical values associated...
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    {\displaystyle z} coordinate with a pressure coordinate system, in which the geopotential heights of constant-pressure surfaces become dependent variables, greatly...
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