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Atmospheric Pressure and Wind
Quantitative Exercises

1 .       If the surface pressure at an elevation of 150 meters is 1000 mb, the sea level pressure is approximately ______.  



2 .       If the sea level pressure is 1006, the surface pressure at an elevation of 500 meters is approximately _______.  



3 .       A barometer reading of 28 inches of mercury is equal to ______.  



4 .       A barometer reading of 1002 mb converts to _____ inches of mercury.  



5 .       If the temperature is 308 K and the air density is 1.13 kg per cubic meter, the pressure is approximately ______.  



6 .       Assume that the surface pressure is 100,000 Pa and the temperature is 278 K, the air density is approximately ____________.  



7 .       If the surface pressure is 1000 mb and the air density is 1.3 kg per cubic meter, the temperature is approximately _______.  



8 .       Based on the hydrostatic equation, a column of air with a density of 1.1 kg per cubic meter has a pressure gradient of ______.  



9 .       A column of air with a pressure gradient of –12.8 Pa per meter has a density of _____ kg per cubic meter.  



10 .       A southeasterly wind has an azimuth of ______.  



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