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  • the 1917 Pinar del Río hurricane is the third most intense cyclone to make landfall in Cuba, with a low atmospheric pressure reading of 928 mbar (27.40 inHg)?
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    Question 1: Atmospheric air pressure is often given in millibars where "standard" ________ pressure is defined as 1013.25 mbar (hPa), equal to 1.01325 bar.
    Sea levelCurrent sea level riseThermohaline circulationPhysical oceanography

    Question 2: In the automotive field, ________ boost is often described in the United Kingdom in terms of the bar.
    Ignition systemSuperchargerCarburetorTurbocharger

    Question 3: William Napier Shaw was the director of the Meteorological Office in ________ from 1907 to 1920.
    StockholmBerlinMoscowLondon

    Question 4: The bar (symbol bar) is a unit of ________ equal to 100 kilopascals, and roughly equal to the atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level.
    TemperaturePressure measurementPressureForce

    Question 5: Despite millibars not being an ________ unit, meteorologists and weather reporters worldwide have long measured air pressure in millibars.
    Metric systemConversion of unitsSystems of measurementInternational System of Units

    Question 6: [4][5] In contrast, Americans are familiar with the use of the millibar in US reports of ________ and other cyclonic storms.
    Tropical cyclone basinsEye (cyclone)Tropical cycloneRain

    Question 7: In water, there is an approximate numerical equivalence between the change in pressure in decibars and the change in depth from the sea surface in ________.
    100 megametresMetre1 decametre10 megametres

    Question 8: [1] The bar is widely used in descriptions of pressure because it is only about 1% smaller than "standard" atmospheric pressure, and is legally recognized in countries of the ________.
    DenmarkEuropean UnionGermanyEuropean Parliament

    Question 9: As a result, decibars are commonly used in ________.
    HydrologyOceanographyPhysical oceanographyCoastal geography

    Question 10: The bar and the millibar were introduced by the British ________ William Napier Shaw in 1909.
    Weather forecastingMETARPrecipitation (meteorology)Meteorology
















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