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The 13 pages that link to Pressure-gradient force, each with the reason it gives.

• Atmospheric circulationRelated: Pressure differences provide the direct force that starts much atmospheric motion.

• Pressure gradientRelated: It converts this spatial pressure change into the force that drives fluid acceleration.

• CycloneRelated: It drives air inward toward the low-pressure center.

• WesterliesRelated: It drives the broad poleward flow that Earth’s rotation deflects into westerlies.

• Geostrophic windRelated: It drives the flow that the Coriolis effect redirects into geostrophic balance.

• Thermal windRelated: It balances Coriolis acceleration in the geostrophic flow whose shear thermal wind describes.

• AnticycloneRelated: It drives air toward an anticyclone’s high-pressure center.

• Buys Ballot's lawRelated: It drives air toward low pressure, while rotation bends that motion into the pattern behind the law.

• C. H. D. Buys BallotRelated: It initiates the airflow whose direction the law relates to pressure placement.

• High-pressure areaRelated: It drives air outward from a high-pressure center.

• Prevailing windsRelated: Regional pressure patterns help set the direction from which winds usually arrive.

• Vertical draftRelated: Pressure differences can drive vertical air motion alongside buoyancy.

• Wind (meteorology)Related: It initiates atmospheric motion by pushing air down pressure differences.