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Wind is the rough horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface. It occurs at all scales, from local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting tens of minutes to global winds resulting from solar heating of the Earth. The two major influences on the atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect).
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How to say "Wind" in other languages:
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(Chinese) | 風 |
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(Japanese) | 風 |
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(German) | Wind |
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(Spanish) | Viento |
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(French) | Vent |
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(Italian) | Vento |
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In Polynesian mythology, Matagi is a wind god...
Innovator of the standard testing transformer and the Compensation Winding...
Apparent wind is the breeze felt by an observer. It is created both by the movement of the observer, and by the true wind. For a stationary observer, both apparent wind and true wind are the same. Apparent wind is calculated by the sum of two vectors. The first vector is the true wind speed. The...
Diablo wind is a regional term for the foehn wind that often occurs in the San Francisco Bay Area. The term is often used because many of the winds originate off of nearby Mount Diablo. Locally, the term "Santa Ana wind" is often also used, although that would more accurately refer to foehn winds...
In meteorology, an isogon is a line of equal or constant wind direction on a graph, plot, or map; an isopleth of wind direction...
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In Polynesian mythology, Mata Upola or Marangai was the third wind that Maui took control of. He was the east wind...
In Polynesian mythology, Matuu or Matu is the god of the north wind and the second wind to be controlled by Maui...
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