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Title: 500mb Grib Winds available
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#6
January 23, 2007 10:58
500mb charts work a little differently than surface charts. The contours on a 500 chart are actually heights at which the pressure is 500mb, so what you're seeing, for example, is 5675 meters elevation. However, in a practical sense they can be read like a surface chart.

Steve Dashew's Weather Handbook has a very extensive discussion of 500mb charts.

Scot
 
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500mb Grib Winds available - by - January 20, 2007 11:36
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