pressure jump
noun
A sudden increase in pressure over a short distance; (Meteorology ) a mobile zone of atmospheric disturbance characterized by a steep pressure gradient and usually marking a discontinuity in the height of an inversion layer.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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