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Weather Words: Pressure Gradient

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The film discusses the principles of aerodynamics, focusing on the behavior of air as it interacts with different shapes and surfaces. It explains how air inertia affects velocity and direction, ...
Do you know what causes wind? Well, broadly speaking it’s the sun... but more specifically, how the sun unevenly heats the Earth’s surface. That leads to areas of high and low pressure forming, and in ...