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What is the relationship between windspped and temperature?Reltionship bet. atmoshperic pressure and altitude?

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  1. Usually winds are present when there are differences in pressure.  That's the H and L that you see on the news, H for high pressure and L for low pressure.  But sometimes these winds are high altitude winds, like the jet stream.  The ones that you experience at ground level can be partially from pressure, but most likely convection that occurs due to warming of the ground, or cooling over bodies of water are what cause the winds at surface level.  Local winds due to thunderstorms is also possible.  As it rains clouds heat up causing them to rise, pulling air up with them from the bottom of the cloud.  Occasionally these result in tornados, due to a combination of jet stream and upward convection - not well understood yet.


  2. The relation between windspeed and temperature= if the air rises and falls, that creates wind. Cold fronts and warm fronts create wind. Evaporation of water provides a cooling effect, and even cooler air will take its place, creating winds. The relation between barometric pressure and altitude= you and others as a human being living on this earth live under a very thin but heavy atmosphere. There is approximately 14.7 square inches of pressure on one inch of the surface of the earth. As you go higher up in altitude, the air gets thinner. The thinner the air, the less pressure.

  3. Due to the unequal heating of the earth's surface(both land and sea),temperature gradients are created which in turn produces pressure gradients.This pressure gradient causes winds.If temperature gradient is steep,the pressure gradient also becomes steep leading to strong winds.

    So,more temperature means, invariably the stronger the winds.

    As the atmospheric pressure is the weight of the over lying column of air over a place,the higher you go up ,the lesser the length of this column and hence lesser the pressure.So pressure always decreases with altitude.

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