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  2. Buys Ballot's law - Wikipedia

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    There, the observed wind speed of the storm is the sum of the speed of wind in the storm circulation plus the velocity of the storm's forward movement. Buys Ballot's law calls this the "Dangerous Quadrant". Likewise, in the left front quadrant of the storm the observed wind is the difference between the storm's wind velocity and its forward ...

  3. Pressure-wind relationship calculations for tropical cyclones

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    The interchangeability of pressure and wind allows for the two to be used to give equivalencies for the public. [3] Pressure-wind relations can be used when information is incomplete, forcing forecasters to rely on the Dvorak Technique. [8] Some storms may have particularly high or low pressures that do not match with their wind speed.

  4. Center of pressure (fluid mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    The total force vector acting at the center of pressure is the surface integral of the pressure vector field across the surface of the body. The resultant force and center of pressure location produce an equivalent force and moment on the body as the original pressure field. Pressure fields occur in both static and dynamic fluid mechanics ...

  5. Betz's law - Wikipedia

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    This is a control-volume analysis; the control volume must contain all incoming and outgoing flow in order to use the conservation equations. The flow is non-compressible. Density is constant, and there is no heat transfer. Uniform pressure is applied to the disk. (No radial dependence on pressure in this 1-D model.)

  6. Centers of action - Wikipedia

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    The French meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort was the first in 1881 to apply this term to maxima and minima of pressure on daily charts. The main centers of action in the Northern Hemisphere are the Icelandic Low , the Aleutian Low , the Azores/Bermuda High , the Pacific High , the Siberian High (in winter), and the Asiatic Low (in summer ...

  7. Tipton, Indiana - Wikipedia

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    The Tipton Light, Heat and Power Company was founded in 1888. Citizens' Gas Company as founded in 1892. Indiana Gas Light Company bought Citizens' in 1913. Natural gas was piped in from West Virginia to a depot in Elwood for distribution in Tipton. The Tipton Electric Light and Water Works was founded in 1898.

  8. Low-pressure area - Wikipedia

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    [50] [52] Friction with land slows down the wind flowing into low-pressure systems and causes wind to flow more inward, or flowing more ageostrophically, toward their centers. [48] Tornadoes are often too small, and of too short duration, to be influenced by the Coriolis force, but may be so-influenced when arising from a low-pressure system ...

  9. Radius of maximum wind - Wikipedia

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    The radius of maximum wind of a tropical cyclone lies just within the eyewall of an intense tropical cyclone, such as Hurricane Isabel from 2003. The radius of maximum wind (RMW) is the distance between the center of a cyclone and its band of strongest winds. It is a parameter in atmospheric dynamics and tropical cyclone forecasting. [1]