What causes wind? How does wind affect our weather? This website is neatly organized into topics about pressure, gradient force, Coriolis force, geostrophic wind, gradient wind, friction, boundary layer wind, and sea and land breezes. Text is supported with pictures, videos, and graphs.

Concepts

air pressure, weather, wind

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Additional Tags

boundary layer wind, geostrophic wind, gradient force, land breeze, sea breeze, coriolis force, air movements

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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