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| Wind | The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to low pressure |
| Anemometer | An instrument used to measure wind speed |
| wind vane | An instrument used to measure wind direction |
| wind-chill factor | The increased cooling caused by wind |
| local wind | Winds that flow over short distances casued by unequal heating of the Earth's surface in a small area(usually the beach) |
| land breeze | A local wind; the flow of air from land to an ocean or lake during the night |
| sea breeze | a local wind; the flow of air from an ocean or lake to the land during the day |
| monsoons | a regional wind pattern that brings sea and land breezes seasonally caused by unequal heating of the earth's surface |
| global winds | winds that blow steadily from specific directions over long distances caused by unequal heating of the earth's surface |
| global convection currents | giant convection currents in the atmosphere caused by unequal heating of the earth's surface producing the global winds |
| Coriolis Effect | Earth's rotation causes Earth's winds to curve to the right in the northern hemisphere(left in S. hemisphere) |
| doldrums | Regions at and near the equator with weak winds |
| Horse latitudes | Regions at or near 30N and 30S with weak winds |
| trade winds | steady easterly winds the blow from 30N and 30 S towards the equator |
| prevailing westerlies | Westward blowing winds between 30S and 60 N and 30S and 60 S |
| polar easterlies | Eastward blowing winds between 60 N and the NP and 60 S and the SP. |
| Jet Streams | bands of high speed winds that run west to east far above the Earth's surface |
