Sorry, but I am back with more questions on Meteorology which I’ve got to sort out by tomorrow evening. Any help would be much appreciated.
(On the Geostrophic Wind, Thom p.212) The geostrophic wind . . . flows in a direction
parallel to the isobars.
(On the Gradient Wind, Thom p.214) . . . In the northern hemisphere the result is a wind flowing
parallel to the isobars. Balanced wind flow
around curved isobars is called the gradient wind.
I can only guess that the clue may lie with “around curved” isobars. If so, what other isobars are there? Straight, rectangular, pentagonal?
Since both geostrophic and gradient wind flow parallel to the isobars, what exactly is the difference between them?
