So the compressor will draw 13A at no load (imagine having it turned on, and flowing but not connected to a tyre). Once you start inflating a tyre, it will put additional load on the compressor and it will need to draw more current.
As for the Ah reating of the battery, mostly it's rated at 20 hrs, so a 50Ah battery will be able to supple 50/20= 2.5A per hour for 20hrs until discharge. 
Someone might have a better explanation, but that's the short story. 
There's also a number of tools out there to help calculate the Ah requirements of a battery bank given a known current draw. When you start adding solar input and everything else back in, then things change again... It's a bit of a black art  
				
			 
			
		 
			
				
			
				
			
			
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