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    The difference between surface and 1000mb geopotential height

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    • vujacicmV Offline
      vujacicm @idefix37
      last edited by vujacicm

      @idefix37 Mounth Everest is 9000m height. How can there be 850mb on 1500m?

      On Windy is simillar

      Surface -5
      1000005940.jpg

      850mb 20
      1000005941.jpg

      On Meteoblue I can show the temperature on the point, on Windy I can only show temperature with colours.

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        idefix37 Sailor Moderator @vujacicm
        last edited by idefix37

        @vujacicm
        See what is the vertical structure of the grid points in a weather model

        https://community.windy.com/topic/5014/windspeed-and-direction-different-heights/2?_=1724610259822

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          idefix37 Sailor Moderator @vujacicm
          last edited by idefix37

          @vujacicm
          In Windy, you can see precisely the temperature of a point.

          C2709D9C-EFBA-45F5-BEF7-EA535AB71649.jpeg

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          • vujacicmV Offline
            vujacicm @idefix37
            last edited by vujacicm

            @idefix37 I am to slow with screenshot. It's gone, before I scan.

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            • vujacicmV Offline
              vujacicm @idefix37
              last edited by

              @idefix37 You are showing me the winds. What about temperature? Does 20 degress on 850mb still cross surface of Mounth Everest?

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                idefix37 Sailor Moderator @vujacicm
                last edited by idefix37

                @vujacicm
                The winds ? The title of my screenshot is Temperature and -7°C is not a wind speed !

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                • vujacicmV Offline
                  vujacicm @idefix37
                  last edited by vujacicm

                  @idefix37 This, what you give me, is about winds

                  https://community.windy.com/topic/5014/windspeed-and-direction-different-heights/2?_=1724610259822

                  I see that understanding geopotential height is not easy, that's reason, why a lot of questions.

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                    idefix37 Sailor Moderator @vujacicm
                    last edited by idefix37

                    @vujacicm
                    I should have only shown this graph.

                    A145EAC6-BC6A-4400-84C2-ECE8EEA6D692.jpeg

                    It should allow you to understand what is the temperature at 850hPa above Mount Everest.
                    Note also there is sometime a big difference between the real elevation and the model elevation.

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                    • vujacicmV Offline
                      vujacicm @idefix37
                      last edited by vujacicm

                      @idefix37 So, model elevation shows that there is 18 Celzius let's say 500m above Mount Everest surface?

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                        idefix37 Sailor Moderator @vujacicm
                        last edited by idefix37

                        @vujacicm

                        In the mountains, global models are wrong because their orography model is too coarse compared to the reality of the terrain.
                        It is exactly what @Gkikas-LGPZ explained to you in his post here Bové
                        You should therefore not try to focus on high mountains with global models.

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                          vujacicm @idefix37
                          last edited by vujacicm

                          @idefix37 What I see on 850mb, I can say that on that level the surface of this mountain is adiabaticaly heated on this level. If this is not true, then is really just wrong, how you say.

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                          • vujacicmV Offline
                            vujacicm @idefix37
                            last edited by

                            @idefix37 It looks like you are right, if geopotential is lower then mountain, it will not show right

                            https://www.theweatherprediction.com/charts/850/

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                            • vujacicmV Offline
                              vujacicm @idefix37
                              last edited by

                              @idefix37 Situation is like this. I live in area, where mountains around are lower then 3000m. So, I can only use surface or 700mb geopotential. Lower will show wrong.

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