Examples of Wind at Different Scales
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Microscale
(2m) – small turbulent eddies
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Mesoscale
(20km) – thunderstorms,
tornadoes, land/sea breeze
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Synoptic scale
(2000km) – hurricanes,
weather map features like highs and lows
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Global scale
(5000 km) – long waves in the
westerlies