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What are causes wind?

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∙ 13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Local winds: Heating of land/ocean, causing rising and falling air. Global winds: The Coriolis effect: Rotation of the Earth causes movement of air.

Also jetstreams in the Stratosphere create wind. Pretty sure those are from the Coriolis effect though.

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