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Why does the surface wind show more complicated flow patterns than the upper-level winds?
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Surface winds have to flow around such things as buildings and mountains. Upper-level winds have no 'obstructions' to alter their path.
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Where do global winds and pressure systems exist?
Global winds and pressure systems exist at the surface and at high altitudes. Surface winds include trade winds, westerlies, and polar easterlies. High altitude winds include high speed winds (which are often called jet streams). These high speed winds blow from the east in the low latitudes and from the west in the middle and high latitudes. Although local and seasonal variations occur, the wind and pressure patterns are generally predictable on the global scale. The high altitude wind and surface wind motions are related to each other.
Which winds are caused either by topographic effects or by variations in surface composition?
Local winds
What Are Upwelling currents?
Ocean up welling is a term to describe the water rising from the deep depths of the ocean floor because of specific wind patterns. Upwellings are caused by strong seasonal winds moving surface coastal water out from the coast and leaving a space that the upwelling fills in.
What are dominant winds?
Prevailing winds are winds that blow predominantly from a single general direction over a particular point on Earth's surface.
What type of winds are part of large patterns of circulation that come from the same direction?
Prevailing
What are the patterns of air movement on Earth's surface caused by the Coriolis effect and differences in heating?
surface winds
The distinct wind patterns on earth's surface are created by what and by the coriolis effect?
The distinct wind patterns on Earthâ??s surface are created by differences in heating and by the Coriolis effect. Temperature differences on Earthâ??s surface create areas of different pressure and the winds.
Where do global winds and pressure systems exist?
Global winds and pressure systems exist at the surface and at high altitudes. Surface winds include trade winds, westerlies, and polar easterlies. High altitude winds include high speed winds (which are often called jet streams). These high speed winds blow from the east in the low latitudes and from the west in the middle and high latitudes. Although local and seasonal variations occur, the wind and pressure patterns are generally predictable on the global scale. The high altitude wind and surface wind motions are related to each other.
What winds are part of large patterns of circulation that come from the same direction?
prevailing winds are part of large patterns of circulation that come from the same direction?
1 What explains the different temperature patterns of St. Louis and Oakland?
winds patterns
How do seasons affect the surface winds?
during the northern winter, the surface winds shift to the south
What is a primary cause for surface winds on earth?
A primary cause for surface winds on the earth is the Earths Rotation.
What are the large circular patterns air travels in?
trade winds
What affects arid climate regions?
Winds and rainfall patterns.
What color is neptune as you see it?
Blue with weather patterns on it's surface such as the "great dark spot" with recording winds of 2 100 km/h whilst Voyager II's fly-by.
What travels thousands of kilometer in steady patterns?
Global winds travel thousands of kilometers in steady patterns
What happens to the amplitude of a wave as strong winds blow it over the ocean's surface?
The amplitude is increased by strong surface winds.
