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== significant level ==
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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">In a [[radiosonde observation]], a level (other than a [[mandatory level]]) for which  values of [[pressure]], [[temperature]], and [[humidity]] are reported because temperature and/or moisture-  content data at that level are sufficiently important or unusual to warrant the attention of the  [[forecaster]], or they are required for the reasonably accurate reproduction of the [[radiosonde observation]].</div><br/><div class="paragraph">There  are definite rules governing the selection of significant levels, set forth in the Manual of  Radiosonde Observations, WBAN Circular P, 7th ed. rev., 1957.</div><br/> </div>
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