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Index of Secondary Text Terms Figure 3.1: Network Map of Wind-related Concepts

Scale of Wind

Wind can be described in terms both of its size and of its duration.

The three categories typically used for classifying winds according to its scale are:

  1. Global
  2. Synoptic
  3. Mesoscale or Local

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This page was created by R. Timothy Smith, when he was an overworked, underpaid Academic Specialist with the Department of Teacher Education in the College of Education at Michigan State University (1993-2001).

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