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- major treatment
- biosphere impact and surface friction
- deceleration injury
- hydrologic cycle
- measurement of airspeed
- In anemometer
- navigation
- occurrence in urban climate
- pressure by Buys Ballot’s law
- Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale
- sound refraction
- tropical cyclones
- tropical storms
- wind power
effect on
weather
- distribution of precipitation
- microbursts
- In microburst
- temperature
- tornadoes
- waterspouts
- In waterspout
- bridge construction
- coastal landforms
- coral reefs
- desert zones
- dispersal of seed and fruit
- Earth atmosphere
- erosion
- ice formation on lakes
- locomotion
- marine food chain
- Mars
- Mediterranean Sea
- natural aerosols
- Neptune’s atmosphere
- ocean currents and temperatures
- plants
- pollination
- sand dunes
- skyscrapers
- tundras
- Uranus’ atmosphere
- vertical mixing
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Article History
Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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Add new Web site: NOAA - Origin of Wind. | Nov 30, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: The University of Hawaiʻi Pressbooks - Atmospheric Processes and Phenomena - Atmospheric Forces and Wind. | Sep 30, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: Open Washington Pressbooks - Geography of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change - Atmospheric Pressure and Wind. | Jul 24, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: NOAA National Weather Service - Air pressure and wind. | Dec 08, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: Exploring Our Fluid Earth - Wind System. | Sep 18, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: Exploring Our Fluid Earth - Wind System. | Mar 01, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Wind. | Sep 29, 2022 | ||
Add new Web site: United States Energy Information Administration - Wind. | Dec 26, 2016 | ||
Add new Web site: Easy Science for Kids - Wind Energy Facts. | Dec 23, 2016 | ||
Add new Web site: Weather Wiz Kids - Wind. | Sep 13, 2016 | ||
Add new Web site: Discovery Kids - How is Wind Created? | Sep 13, 2016 | ||
Add new Web site: Kids Geo - Kids Geography - Atmospheric Pressure Makes The Wind Blow. | Sep 13, 2016 | ||
Add new Web site: Weather For Kids - Wind. | Sep 13, 2016 | ||
Add new Web site: Science Kids - Fun Science and technology For Kids! - Wind. | Sep 13, 2016 | ||
Added video. | Mar 20, 2015 | ||
Add new Web site: Energy Kids - Wind. | May 23, 2014 | ||
Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Wind, Whirlpools and Waves. | Jun 06, 2011 | ||
Added video describing the formation of wind by interacting masses of high and low pressure air. | Feb 09, 2011 | ||
Media added. | Nov 08, 2010 | ||
Added new Web site: National Geographic - Wind. | Apr 17, 2009 | ||
Added new Web site: The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook - As the Wind Blows. | Mar 19, 2009 | ||
Added new Web site: The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook - As the Wind Blows. | Mar 19, 2009 | ||
Article revised and updated. | Nov 07, 2007 | ||
Article revised. | Mar 26, 1999 | ||
Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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