Wind
All about wind
General Information
What Causes Wind: Wind is caused by differences in air pressure.
Local Winds
How Local Winds are Created: Local winds are created by the uneven heating of earth's surfaces.
How Sea Breezes Blow: Sea breezes blow because air pressure is created over the ocean during the day and low pressure over land due to uneven heating and then air from the ocean blow onto land.
How Land Breezes Blow: Land breezes blow because low pressure occurs over the ocean during the night and high pressure over land due to uneven heating of earth.
Local Winds
Global Winds
How Global Winds are Created: The combination of pressure belts and the Coriolis Effect cause global winds.
About Doldrums: Located along the equator where no winds blow because the warm rising air creates and area of low pressure.
About Trade Winds: Winds that blow from 30° almost to the equator.
About Jet Streams: The jet streams are narrow belts of high speed winds that blow in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.
About Polar Easterlies: Wind belts that extend from the poles to 60° latitude.