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82 relations: American Meteorological Society, Anabatic wind, Andes, Atmosphere of Earth, Atmospheric circulation, Atmospheric pressure, Bernoulli's principle, Cardinal direction, Caribbean Sea, Climate, Cold, Condensation, Coriolis force, Desert, Dune, Earth, East, Eddy (fluid dynamics), Equator, Florida International University, Fresno, California, Great Basin, Great Plains, Heat capacity, High-pressure area, Indiana University, Katabatic wind, Landform, Lapse rate, Latitude, Lee wave, Meteorology, Middle latitudes, Mojave Desert, Mountain breeze and valley breeze, Mountain pass, National Oceanographic Partnership Program, National Weather Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, North Pole, Northern Hemisphere, Ocean, Orographic lift, Orography, Pacific Ocean, Points of the compass, Polar coordinate system, Polar easterlies, Polar High, Polar vortex, ..., Precipitation, Rain shadow, Roaring Forties, Sea breeze, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), South Pole, Southern Hemisphere, Subsidence (atmosphere), Subtropical ridge, Sun, Thermal low, Topography, Trade winds, Tropical cyclone, Tropics, Tucson, Arizona, Turkey, United States Navy, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Oklahoma, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wyoming, Vertical draft, Weather radar, West, Westerlies, Wind rose, Wind speed, Winds in the Age of Sail, Windward and leeward, 40th parallel south, 50th parallel south. Expand index (32 more) »
American Meteorological Society
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is the premier scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences. Its mission is to advance the atmospheric and related sciences, technologies, applications, and services for the benefit of society.
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Anabatic wind
An anabatic wind, from the Greek anabatos, verbal of anabainein meaning moving upward, is a warm wind which blows up a steep slope or mountain side, driven by heating of the slope through insolation.
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Andes
The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.
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Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, commonly known as air, that surrounds the planet Earth and is retained by Earth's gravity.
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Atmospheric circulation
Atmospheric circulation is the large-scale movement of air, and together with ocean circulation is the means by which thermal energy is redistributed on the surface of the Earth.
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Atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric pressure, sometimes also called barometric pressure, is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth (or that of another planet).
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Bernoulli's principle
In fluid dynamics, Bernoulli's principle states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.
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Cardinal direction
The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the directions north, east, south, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, E, S, and W. East and west are at right angles to north and south, with east being in the clockwise direction of rotation from north and west being directly opposite east.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Climate
Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.
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Cold
Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere.
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Condensation
Condensation is the change of the physical state of matter from gas phase into liquid phase, and is the reverse of vapourisation.
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Coriolis force
In physics, the Coriolis force is an inertial force that acts on objects that are in motion relative to a rotating reference frame.
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Desert
A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.
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Dune
In physical geography, a dune is a hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes (wind) or the flow of water.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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East
East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass.
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Eddy (fluid dynamics)
In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid is in a turbulent flow regime.
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Equator
An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).
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Florida International University
Florida International University (FIU) is a metropolitan public research university in Greater Miami, Florida.
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Fresno, California
Fresno (Spanish for "ash tree") is a city in California, United States, and the county seat of Fresno County.
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Great Basin
The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.
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Great Plains
The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.
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Heat capacity
Heat capacity or thermal capacity is a measurable physical quantity equal to the ratio of the heat added to (or removed from) an object to the resulting temperature change.
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High-pressure area
A high-pressure area, high or anticyclone is a region where the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the planet is greater than its surrounding environment.
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Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States.
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Katabatic wind
A katabatic wind (named from the Greek word κατάβασις katabasis, meaning "descending") 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.
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Landform
A landform is a natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body.
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Lapse rate
Lapse rate is the rate at which Earth's atmospheric temperature decreases with an increase in altitude, or increases with the decrease in altitude.
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Latitude
In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.
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Lee wave
In meteorology, lee waves are atmospheric stationary waves.
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Meteorology
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences which includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics, with a major focus on weather forecasting.
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Middle latitudes
The middle latitudes (also called the mid-latitudes, sometimes midlatitudes, or moderate latitudes) of Earth lie between 23°26'22" and 66°33'39" north, and between 23°26'22" and 66°33'39" south.
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Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert is an arid rain-shadow desert and the driest desert in North America.
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Mountain breeze and valley breeze
A mountain breeze and a valley breeze are two related, localized winds that occur one after the other on a daily cycle.
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Mountain pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge.
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National Oceanographic Partnership Program
The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) facilitates interagency and multi-sectoral partnerships to address federal ocean science and technology research priorities.
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National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States Federal Government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.
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Natural Resources Conservation Service
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers.
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North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is (subject to the caveats explained below) defined as the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
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Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
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Ocean
An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
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Orographic lift
Orographic lift occurs when an air mass is forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over rising terrain.
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Orography
Orography (from the Greek όρος, hill, γραφία, to write) is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Points of the compass
The points of the compass mark the divisions on a compass, which is primarily divided into four points: north, south, east, and west.
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Polar coordinate system
In mathematics, the polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a reference point and an angle from a reference direction.
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Polar easterlies
The polar easterlies (also Polar Hadley cells) are the dry, cold prevailing winds that blow from the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the North and South Poles towards low-pressure areas within the Westerlies at high latitudes.
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Polar High
The polar highs are areas of high atmospheric pressure around the north and south poles; the north polar high being the stronger one because land gains and loses heat more effectively than sea.
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Polar vortex
A polar vortex is an upper level low-pressure area lying near the Earth's poles.
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Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.
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Rain shadow
A rain shadow is a dry area on the leeward side of a mountainous area (away from the wind).
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Roaring Forties
The Roaring Forties are strong westerly winds found in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees.
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Sea breeze
A sea breeze or onshore breeze is any wind that blows from a large body of water toward or onto a landmass; it develops due to differences in air pressure created by the differing heat capacities of water and dry land.
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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
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South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface.
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Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.
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Subsidence (atmosphere)
Subsidence, in the Earth's atmosphere, is most commonly caused by a low temperature.
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Subtropical ridge
The subtropical ridge, also known as the subtropical high or horse latitudes, is a significant belt of atmospheric high pressure situated around the latitudes of 30°N in the Northern Hemisphere and 30°S in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
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Thermal low
Thermal lows, or heat lows, are non-frontal low-pressure areas that occur over the continents in the subtropics during the warm season, as the result of intense heating when compared to their surrounding environments.
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Topography
Topography is the study of the shape and features of the surface of the Earth and other observable astronomical objects including planets, moons, and asteroids.
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Trade winds
The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator.
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Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.
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Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
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Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona.
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Turkey
Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.
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United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.
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University of Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a coeducational public research university in Norman, Oklahoma.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, or regionally as UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
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University of Wyoming
The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,220 feet (2194 m), between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains.
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Vertical draft
An updraft is a small‐scale current of rising air, often within a cloud.
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Weather radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.). Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the intensity of the precipitation.
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West
West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass.
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Westerlies
The westerlies, anti-trades, or prevailing westerlies, are prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude.
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Wind rose
A wind rose is a graphic tool used by meteorologists to give a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location.
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Wind speed
Wind speed, or wind flow velocity, is a fundamental atmospheric quantity.
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Winds in the Age of Sail
The captain of a steam ship naturally chooses the shortest route to his destination.
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Windward and leeward
Windward is the direction upwind from the point of reference, alternatively the direction from which the wind is coming.
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40th parallel south
The 40th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 40 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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50th parallel south
The 50th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 50 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevailing_winds
