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The thing that mostly causes global wind is the temperature

differences between high and low altitudes.

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The following is an answer I wrote earlier about "prevailing westerlies" in middle latitudes - see if it suits your purposes, or if you need information about something else or some other aspect of atmospheric circulation....


The westerlies are the prevailing direction whence winds and weather move in the northern hemisphere.



It starts with the fact that the sun hits the Equator more directly than the poles (in this most basic, simple description), making the surface air near the Equator relatively hot and the air near the pole relatively cold. Hot air being less dense and more buoyant than cold, convection causes the warm Equatorial air to rise while the colder polar air sinks.



Among other effects, this leads to higher air pressure in the middle levels of the atmosphere near the Equator (because air is buoyant and lifting into, or being added to, this part of the atmosphere) and lower pressure at mid-levels near the poles (because air is dense and sinking away from mid-levels of the atmosphere). So now you have, off the immediate Earth's surface (but even to some extent at the surface), higher air pressure near the Equator and lower air pressure near the poles. Nature and the laws of physics try to eliminate this pressure difference, meaning that air flows from areas of higher pressure toward areas of lower pressure to even things out - at least that's its intent.




This is where the Coriolis effect kicks in. On a non-rotating surface, air moves from higher pressure to lower pressure, directly perpendicular to the gradient (change in pressure with distance). But because of the Earth's rotation, this air flow is spun, in a sense, such that it is almost but not quite parallel to the gradient, keeping lower pressure to its left and higher pressure to its right (it is actually we and the Earth that spin beneath the air, but that is not the way humans on this rotating surface experience it).



Because of the direction the Earth spins, and because of the air movement dictated by all the factors above, the over-simplified result is a band of air that encircles the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere, with winds that flow from west to east; high pressure near the Equator to its right (south in this case) and the lower polar air pressures to its left. These winds in their more complicated realistic state - stronger here, weaker there, buckled here, warped there, with waves interacting in often complex ways - drive weather systems, and generally keep them moving from west to east - that's the PREVAILING situation anyways - hence "prevailing" westerlies.

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Solar heating of the atmosphere, differential heating of water and land masses, rotation of the Earth and the Coriolis effect it causes u are just heating up

The differences in heating

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Global winds are caused by ocean currents.

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Convection cycles and the coriolis effect i think.

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There are a number of things that cause global winds to occur. This is mainly influenced by the high and low pressure of the air as well as the exchange of cold and warm air at the equator.

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D.contrasting temperatures between night and day

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uneven heating of Earth's surface

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