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... 21 KB (2,453 words) - 01:22, 14 January 2024 |
Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth. The standard... 23 KB (2,418 words) - 15:14, 25 April 2024 |
create high pressure. High pressure usually means pressures of thousands (kilobars) or millions (megabars) of times atmospheric pressure (about 1 bar... 5 KB (567 words) - 06:58, 13 January 2024 |
Horse latitudes (redirect from Subtropical high pressure zone) 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... 15 KB (1,769 words) - 14:37, 30 January 2024 |
the high-pressure area is often lower than −40 °C (−40 °F). The atmospheric pressure is often above 1,040 millibars (31 inHg). The Siberian High is the... 10 KB (1,069 words) - 12:18, 1 April 2024 |
Sodium-vapor lamp (redirect from High pressure sodium lamp) wavelength near 589 nm. Two varieties of such lamps exist: low pressure and high pressure. Low-pressure sodium lamps are highly efficient electrical light sources... 27 KB (3,144 words) - 21:11, 1 April 2024 |
Anticyclone (redirect from Ridge of high pressure) a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in... 19 KB (2,039 words) - 06:03, 23 April 2024 |
Look up high in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. High may refer to: Height High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area High (computability), a quality of... 4 KB (434 words) - 20:18, 22 March 2024 |
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.: 445 Gauge... 44 KB (5,649 words) - 02:15, 16 April 2024 |
land, across almost every area on Earth since the 1950s. This is due to climate change. Heat waves form when a high-pressure area in the upper atmosphere... 53 KB (7,156 words) - 01:23, 27 April 2024 |
A pressure switch is a form of switch that operates an electrical contact when a certain set fluid pressure has been reached on its input. The switch... 6 KB (882 words) - 01:51, 18 August 2023 |
High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), formerly referred to as high-pressure liquid chromatography, is a technique in analytical chemistry used... 86 KB (10,717 words) - 06:12, 24 April 2024 |
Subsidence generally creates a high-pressure area as more air moves into the same space: the polar highs are areas of almost constant subsidence, as... 2 KB (166 words) - 06:11, 31 October 2023 |
wake low can form, which is a mesoscale low-pressure area that forms behind the mesoscale high-pressure system normally present under the rain canopy... 31 KB (3,522 words) - 16:45, 6 April 2024 |