2: Pressure Gradients - Geosciences LibreTexts
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WEB1272. Anne Willem Omta. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From high school geography class, you may remember that "air tends to flow from high pressure to low pressure". To understand why this happens, it is key to realize that gases (but also liquids) exert a force on their surroundings because of the thermal motion of the molecules.
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