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| bora | a wind in Adriatic, Greece, Russia and Turkey |
| Bermuda high | the name given to a subtropical high in the North Atlantic during the summer when it is centered near the island of Bermuda |
| doldrums | the equatorial belt of calms or light variable winds lying between the two trade wind belts |
| El Nino | is a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon of the Pacific and is referred to as the 'little boy' |
| foehn | is a type of dry downslope wind which occurs in the lee of a mountain range |
| jet stream | are fast flowing, relatively narrow air currents found at the tropopause |
| land breeze | a local wind blowing from the land toward the sea during the night in coastal areas |
| La Nina | an episode of strong trade winds and unusually low sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific |
| mistral | A wind occurring as an atmospheric phenomenon around France and Italy |
| monsoon | the seasonal reversal of wind direction associated with large continents |
| mountain breeze | the nightly downslope winds commonly found in mountain valleys |
| ocean current | that mass movement of ocean water that is either wind driven ir initated by temperatures and saline content of the seawater |
| polar front | the stormy frontal zone separating air masses of polar origin from air masses of tropical origin |
| polar high | anticyclones that are assumed to occupy the inner polar regions and are believed to be thermally induced |
| Santa Ana | are strong, extremely dry offshore winds that characteristically sweep through in Southern California and northern Baja California in late fall and winter |
| Trade winds | are a pattern of wind that are found in bands around the Earth's equatorial region |
| upwelling | is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water towards the ocean surface, replacing the warmer, usually nutrient-depleted surface water |
| valley breeze | the daily upslope winds commonly found in the mountains |
| mesoscale winds | small convective cells that exist for a short time such as thunderstorms or tornadoes |
| katabatic | is the technical name for a drainage wind, a wind that carries high density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity |
| chinook | a wind observed in the interior West of North America |
