How is the wind made?

Question

In the most simple terms how is wind made and where does it come from?

Answer 1

Solar radiation emitted by the sun travels through space and strikes the Earth, causing regions of unequal heating over land masses and oceans. This unequal heating produces regions of high and low pressure. The atmosphere tries to equalize those pressures, so you get movement of air from a region of high pressure to a region of low pressure, Scientists call this the pressure gradient force, and it is the fundamental force behind wind.

Answer 2

All over the world there are moving areas of high and low pressure. They come over England from the West and if, say, a low pressure area moves in then the air, as wind, comes to equal the pressure up. If you watch a a barometer, which is a pressure measuring device, and it changes quickly then we will be in for stronger winds. If it doesn't change there will be no wind.

Answer 3

wind is created by the solar cycle through the uneven warming and cooling of the earth's surface. As the sun warms the land, air above the land is also warmed. This air rises and cooler air rushes in to replace it, producing a gentle breeze - or a howling tempest.

Large-scale winds are caused by the fact that the earth's surface is heated to a greater degree at the equator than at the poles. The rotation of the earth also affects these planetary winds. On a smaller scale, winds flow through mountain valleys and spill over high peaks across unobstructed prairies.

Answer 4

Through when high and low pressure mix together!

Wind is created by the solar cycle through the uneven warming and cooling of the earth's surface. As the sun warms the land, air above the land is also warmed. This air rises and cooler air rushes in to replace it, producing a gentle breeze - or a howling tempest.

Large-scale winds are caused by the fact that the earth's surface is heated to a greater degree at the equator than at the poles. The rotation of the earth also affects these planetary winds. On a smaller scale, winds flow through mountain valleys and spill over high peaks across unobstructed prairies.

Answer 5

There are various contributors to the creation of wind, such as the moons distance to the earth, the heat in one area to another (creating high & low pressure) & also the polar effects


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Answer 6

One day a dainty butterfly flapped her wings as she gracefully leaped from her honey indulging flower. Unbeknown to her , the effects caused a typhoon down in deepest, darkest, Africa.
You see, the short term effects of such an action can have devastating effects around the globe.
For as example, 1*1=1. 2*2=4.
4*4=16, etc.
And this phenomenon triplicates itself around the globe.
The real problem is, don't let hot air get under your collar!?.

Answer 7

the wind is made because of the difrence of the pressure!!!
wind tryies to make the pressure equal in every place on the earth.
so, the air come from places were the preassure is high to places where the preassure is low.
that is very easy to understand, but in earth there is another effect that make the things diferent...that is coriolis force.the shape of the earth makes the air to bend 90o to the right at the north part of the earth and 90o to the left at the shouth part of the eart!
so we easily expected air to came from the high pressures to the low pressures, but in reality the wind have such a dimention in order to have high preseures at the right ang low preassures at the left! that happens at the north part of the earth and just the oposite at the shouth part of the earth.

Answer 8

We know that air is present everywhere in the earth's atmosphere. In some part is theearth the temperature is high and somewhere it is low. The places with high temperature have low pressure and the places with low temprature have high pessure. Air has a tendency move from high pressure are to low pressure area. In this way, wind is created. Thus when there is a difference in the air pressure over two areas, it gives birth to wind.

Answer 9

Change in air pressure in different locations causing the air to move fromhigh pressure areas to low pressure areas..
These changes can be caused by the amount of heat from the sun, changes in temperature between day and night, the amount of cloud cover or simply the rotation of the earth.

Answer 10

It's cause by several reasons, but the main wind creator is warming and cooling of the earth's surface and moving of hot air toward up. Earth moving is the second one, and you can find all major winds pattern from west to east of the Earth