[EESA09H3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (31 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Movement of air in and ordered fashion. Not directly but can feel the effects of it. Diff in horizontal and vertical air pressure. Flow from high pressure to low pressure. Horizontal pressure-associated with changes in horizontal flow. Horizontal pressure gradient which is dominant in the upper atmosphere. Concept of atmospheric pressure- what wind do not fall of the surface level-that is ground. Why all the wind is not moving upward given the fact that air pressure decreases with height. Fictitious force due to the rotation of the earth. Geostrophic winds is typically 1 km or so above the surface. Below 1 km the wind influenced by friction. There is more nrg relased in the poloar region that received from the sun reverse is true for the equatorial region. Air rises at the equtor moves poleward and then sinks at the pole. Named after george hadkey , brit lawyer and amateur meteorologist (1685-
