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Summary Of: Geopotential height

One usually speaks of the geopotential height of a certain... which would correspond to the geopotential height necessary to reach the given pressure... Geophysical scientists often use geopotential height rather than geometric height... A plot of geopotential height for a single pressure level shows the troughs and ridges... Geopotential height contours can be used to calculate the...

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