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ScribdTranslationsISOBARA: imaginary line located on a map that connects points of
equal atmospheric pressure. Its representation allows for the creation of maps
meteorological pressure center (anticyclone, depression, and swamp)
barometric) and determines the component and intensity of the winds.
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ISOBARIC FORMS:
The pressure-temperature relationship, and the uneven heating of the earth by
the sun, form areas of high or low pressure. In the representation of a
surface map, these isobar shapes determine the general state
of time. They are usually areas of high or low pressure represented
by concentric or elliptical isobars surrounding a high pressure: To a
depression: B.
Fixed anticyclones, mobile anticyclones, area of high pressures
Depressions and Secondary Formations speaks in this chapter.
MAIN ISOBARIC FORMS:
Depending on the time, we will always be able to find an isobaric form.
characteristic. Isobars can be straight or curved, and in this
the last case can be open or closed with a maximum or a minimum in
its interior. The most common cases are:
High pressure areas: They are formed by elliptical isobars with
increasing pressure values from the periphery to the center. In turn, it
they can be subdivided into:
1. Fixed anticyclone (A): It is of great extent and the winds circulate in the
clockwise in the northern hemisphere and the reverse in the
southern hemisphere. It corresponds to regions with good weather, although
Fog can originate, especially at its edges.
2. Mobile anticyclone (A): It is smaller in extent than the fixed one and usually is
situated between two mobile depressions.
3. Area of high pressures: Region ofirregular shapeunder high pressure
on the inside and without defined centers.
Low pressure areas: Formed by elliptical isobars but this time
with decreasing pressure values from the periphery to the center. It
they can be subdivided as follows:
1. Depression (B): Also called a storm and low. They are more
smaller than fixed anticyclones and are generally mobile,
moving from west to east. The winds swirl around it in a clockwise direction
counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and vice versa in the southern hemisphere
(cyclonic circulation). They are typical at mid-latitudes and occupy positions
semifijas. They are associated with cloudiness and precipitation, due to ascendance.
of the air masses.
2. Tropical cyclone: They resemble depressions in terms of their shape.
isobaric although these are a little smaller and symmetrical. In this
in cases the winds are much more violent and always appear in the
intertropical regions.
3. Secondary depression (B): It is a small depression close to a
main depression, in such a way that it is encompassed within it,
having some isobars in common.
4. Low-pressure area: Irregularly shaped region with low pressures
on the inside but with no defined center.
SECONDARY ISOBARIC FORMS
They understand those open barometric configurations that give
place to different types of weather:
Cyclonic circulation of the winds
1. Vaguada: It is also referred to as a groove or depression in V. It
corresponds to open isobars in the shape of a V, all of them "fitted" and
in which there is a decrease in pressures from the outside to the inside.
2. Gorge: It is a kind of "mountain" that connects two depressions.
successive.
Anticyclonic circulation of the winds
1. Dorsal or false anticyclone: They are usually the appendages of anticyclones.
more extensive. It has an inverted U shape such that the inner isobars
they have larger values than the extremes. They do not have the vertex so
pointed like the trough.
2. Anticyclonic bridge: It is the situation opposite to a gorge. It is a
zone of high pressure that connects two anticyclones.
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