Talk:Pressure gradient

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both (liquid water) pressure gradient ( http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=pressure%20gradient ) and geopressure gradient ( http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=geopressure%20gradient ) could be added here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.24.222.140 (talk) 05:22, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Geopressure gradient accompanies the Geothermal gradient. ":It is more intuitively fitting to talk about volumetric forces instead of pressure gradients. The unit would be Newton per cubic meter, N/m³. This figure tells the net force on a volume of a medium. Pa/m doesn't say much about the physics. Neither can I understand why this article is specific to meteorology. Pressure gradients can exist in any medium. Even among the few particles in interstellar space. Davidjonsson (talk) 17:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

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Wind blows from and area of high pressure to low pressure— Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.53.162.108 (talk) 18:54, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Is the given magnitude accurate

"At mid-latitudes, the typical horizontal pressure gradient may take on values of the order of 10⁻² Pa/m (or 10 Pa/km), although rather higher values occur within meteorological fronts."

Is this number accurate? This article doesn't seem to have inline citations. 18.29.7.227 (talk) 09:50, 23 December 2022 (UTC)