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What are planetary winds?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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9y ago

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The term planetary winds can be defined in different ways:

--Planetary wind can refer to any wind system of the earth's atmosphere which owes its existence and direction to solar radiation and to the rotation of the earth.

--Planetary wind can refer to major winds that affect great portions of the earth rather than just local winds.

--Planetary wind can also refer to gas loss from a planet into space, when the hydrodynamic wind in the upper portion of the planet's atmosphere allows light chemical elements to move up to the exobase. Those gases can then achieve escape velocity.

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6y ago

Wind of some sort occurs on every planet in the solar system except for Mercury, which essentially has no atmosphere.

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12y ago

the types of planetary winds are

1) Trade Winds

2) Westerlies

3) Polar Easterlies

4) Jet and EI Nino

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11y ago

That refers to gases gradually escaping from an atmosphere, into outer space.

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10y ago

The Coriolis effect.

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