Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Isobars


A line drawn on a weather map connecting points of equal pressure is called an isobar. The isobars are generated from mean sea level pressure reports and the pressure values are given in millibars.

source: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/prs/isb.rxml

No comments:

Post a Comment