1. Chapter 6 Air Pressure and Winds
The Atmosphere 10e Lutgens & Tarbuck Power Point by Michael C. LoPresto

2. Gale Force Winds Create Waves that Batter Coast in UK in 2002

3. Comparing Atmospheric Pressures

4. Measuring Atmospheric Pressure
Mercury Barometer

5. Aneroid
Barometer

6. Air Pressure and Aviation
Altimeter

7. Adjusting to Sea-Level Pressure

8. Pressure Changes with Altitude

9. Air Pressure Is Proportional to Density

10. Pressure Changes with Temperature

11. Isobars

12. Pressure-Gradient Force

13. Formation
of a
Sea Breeze

14. The
Coriolis
Effect

15. Coriolis Deflection Depends on Latitude

16. Friction
Decreases
with Altitude…
…Wind Speed
Increases
with Altitude

17. The Geostrophic Wind

18. Upper-air Weather Chart

20. Cyclones and Anticyclones

21. Do Baseballs Really Fly Farther at Higher Altitude?

22. Comparison
between
Upper-level
and
Surface Winds

23. Snow Fence

24. Surface High and Low Pressure Systems

25. in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Cyclonic Circulation
in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

26. Associated with Surface Cyclones and Anticyclones
Upper Air-flow
Associated with Surface
Cyclones and Anticyclones

27. Associated Weather…
…with
High Pressure
…with
Low Pressure

28. Wind Measurement
Wind Vane
Aerovane

29. Wind Rose

30. Satellite Wind Measurements

31. Wind Energy
Growth in
U.S. Wind-power

32. Chapter 6
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