About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: Tornado, Jet stream, Monsoon, Dust devil, Wind speed, Beaufort scale, Fujita scale, Wind gradient, Tropical cyclone scales, Wind shear, Wind power forecasting, Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, Prevailing winds, Microburst, Trade wind, Derecho, Westerlies, Enhanced Fujita Scale, MEMO Model, Outflow boundary, TORRO scale, Squall, Clear-air turbulence, Foehn wind, Maximum sustained wind, Rear flank downdraft, Downburst, Wind assistance, Heat burst, Radius of maximum wind, Sea breeze, Windward and leeward, Katabatic wind, Carvill Hurricane Index, Hurricane Severity Index, Hodograph, Bar, Windthrow, Calm, Anemophily, Wind direction, Anabatic wind, Zastruga, Sting jet, Gale, Williwaw, Sukhovey, Steam devil, Mountain breeze and valley breeze, Wind run, Whole gale. Excerpt: Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space. Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed, the types of forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect. The strongest observed winds on a planet in our solar system occur on Neptune and Saturn. In meteorology, winds are often referred to according to their strength, and the direction from which the wind is blowing. Short bursts of high speed wind are termed gusts. Strong winds of intermediate duration (around one minute) are termed squalls. Long-duration winds have various names associated with their average strength, such as breeze, gale, storm, hurricane, and typhoon. Wind occurs on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces an...
