GEOG 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ocean Current, University Of Manchester, Boiling Point
1 Sep 2015
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Wind moves air around and provides a constant supply of oxygen. Wind carries pollen to other plant so they can reproduce. Wind is an energy source (e. g. used to generate electricity) Moves from areas with high atmospheric pressure to low atmospheric pressure. Changes in atmospheric pressure is due to changes in temperature (i. e. heating and cooling) Units are standard atmospheric pressure or normal sea level pressure. The higher up you go, the atmospheric pressure decreases. Harder to breathe higher up due to lower atmospheric pressure. Lower atmospheric pressure = lower boiling point for water. Deflection is least at the equator and greatest at the poles. There is little effect of friction force in the upper atmosphere. Due to how land and water is heated. A warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the rockies. Large scale circulations of wind around regions of low and high atmospheric pressure respectively.
