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1High-Speed Solar Wind — A flow of high speed plasma leaving the Sun. The average velocity of the Solar Wind is almost 350 kilometers (217 miles) per second. Holes in the Sun s Corona allow for regions of much stronger Solar Winds called High Speed Solar Wind Streams …
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2Wind speed — is the speed of wind, the movement of air or other gases in an atmosphere. It is a scalar quantity, the magnitude of the vector of motion.Wind speed has always meant the movement of air in an outside environment, but the speed of air movement… …
3Wind — For other uses, see Wind (disambiguation). Wind, from the …
4Wind chill — This page is for the meteorological effect of wind chill. For the film, see Wind Chill. Wind chill is the apparent temperature felt on exposed skin, which is a function of the air temperature and wind speed. The wind chill temperature (often… …
5Wind power — Wind power: worldwide installed capacity [1] …
6Wind profiler — at various elevations above the ground. Readings are made at each kilometer above sea level, up to the extent of the troposphere (up to the limit of the earths atmosphere, or 17 kilometers above mean sea level). Above this level there is… …
7Wind rose — A wind rose is a graphic tool used by meteorologists to give a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location. Presented in a circular format, the wind rose shows the frequency of winds blowing… …
8Wind atlas — A wind atlas contains data on the wind speed and wind direction in a region. These data include maps, but also time series or frequency distributions. A climatological wind atlas covers hourly averages at a standard height (10 meter) over even… …
9Wind shear — Wind shear, sometimes referred to as windshear or wind gradient, is a difference in wind speed and direction over a relatively short distance in the atmosphere. Wind shear can be broken down into vertical and horizontal components, with… …
10Wind turbines (UK domestic) — Wind turbines have been on the United Kingdom s domestic market many years, but their popularity and public awareness is now increasing substantially.Claims about their efficiency and productivity are under some debate due to the disparity of… …
