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Meteorological indicator
Answer for the clue "Meteorological indicator ", 6 letters:
isobar
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context meteorology English) A line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant pressure. 2 (context nuclear physics English) Either of two nuclides of different elements having the same mass number. 3 (context thermodynamics English) ...
Usage examples of isobar.
At Salt Lake, Tulsa, Denver, Fort Worth, Albuquerque, the meteorology boys were bending over their maps and connecting points of like barometric pressure with isobar lines.
I read the gauge, squinted up at the sun, and then jabbed a finger on an isobar to one edge of the map.
The isobar pattern shows the pressure gradient growing ever steeper, sucking in gale-force winds behind and fuelling the system with energy.
This map was Perspex-framed and the isobars had been drawn in with Chinagraph pencil on the Perspex.
And then on the other side, over towards Greenland and Canada, more isobars drawn in with long, curving sweeps of hand and pencil.
And between the High and the Low the isobars narrowed until, just east of Iceland, they were almost touching.
He entered them in, connected them up, scoring the isobars with a red pencil.
Elaine on a jet crossing the country, sailing west like gods over isobars and occluded fronts and high-pressure systems, chasing the weather to its source.
A coldness that was not of isobars and pressure fronts congealed within her gut, a ball of frozen jelly heavy as hopelessness.
Two and a half million people watching the neighborhood isobars of war and truce.
Tsuya busy at his desk in the damp, dead silence of the station, inking in the isobars and isogeo-therms and isogals on a deep-level plutonic chart.
By the time it reached the eastern American seaboard a north-easter was blowing, and a score of meteorologists drew their isobars and noted laconically that winter would be early this year.
World Wide Web, made obsolete much of the most sophisticated modern military technology, curtailed global surveillance and reconnaissance, and forced local weathermen to draw isobars on maps of the continental United States rather than glide through CGI images rendered from weathersats.
Pointer said something about isobars, the staff-captain replied serenely that he did not expect to find any polar bears in these latitudes.
Channel 3 and watched Jenn expertly describing isobars and cold fronts and other things about which he knew she had no clue.