Directory of Wind Resources

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• Jet Streams

Resources in This Category

• Air Pressure and Wind

  http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfjps/1400/pressure_wind.html
  Educational site linking the air pressure and winds to gravity, the Coriolis Force, friction and centrifugal force.

• National Weather Service: Global Circulations

  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/global/circ.htm
  Explains how the Earth's rotation results in three circulations, the Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells.

• The Beaufort Wind Scale

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A876864
  Describes this scale of wind speed devised in 1805 by Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort.

• Weather Elements: Sea and Land Breezes

  http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/elements/seabrz.htm
  Discussion about wind direction changes that take place at coastal regions. Includes diagrams.

• Wind Engineering and Fluids Laboratory

  http://www.windlab.colostate.edu/
  Colorado State University research group studying wind effects on structures, as well as dispersion of pollutants, using boundary-layer wind tunnels.

• Wind Engineering Research Center, Texas Tech University

  http://www.depts.ttu.edu/weweb/
  Large collection of informational material about the natural wind and its effects on civil engineering infrastructure made up of buildings, bridges, transmission-line towers, and various other structures.

 

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