Since they impact our daily life, we tend to think about wind and weather locally, but they are in fact interconnected with the dynamics of heat transfer in the atmosphere. We will now step back and apply our concepts of differential heating, pressure gradient forces, and geostrophic motion at a global scale, to explore the implications for what is called the general circulation of the atmosphere. This will set the broader context within which individual weather systems exist.
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