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• Air Pressure and Wind - Educational site linking the air pressure and winds to gravity, the Coriolis Force, friction and centrifugal force.
• National Weather Service: Global Circulations - Explains how the Earth's rotation results in three circulations, the Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells.
• The Beaufort Wind Scale - Describes this scale of wind speed devised in 1805 by Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort.
• Weather Elements: Sea and Land Breezes - Discussion about wind direction changes that take place at coastal regions. Includes diagrams.
• What Is Wind? - Provides information on what causes the changes in pressure that result in air movements that we call wind.
• Wind Engineering Research Center, Texas Tech University - 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.
• Wind Engineering and Fluids Laboratory - Colorado State University research group studying wind effects on structures, as well as dispersion of pollutants, using boundary-layer wind tunnels.
• Wind: The Invisible Force - Educational site produced by students for students with information on the development of winds, hurricanes, tornadoes, a glossary of terms and a quiz..

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