Describe about the types of wind blows in world? part-1

The Local winds around the world are formed through the heating of land. In coastal regions, the sea breezes and land breezes are important factors in a location’s prevailing winds. The sea is warmed by the sun more slowly because of water’s greater specific heat compared to land. As the temperature of the surface of the land rises, the land heats the air above it by conduction. The warm air is less dense than the surrounding environment and so it rises. This causes a pressure gradient of about 2 millibar from the ocean to the land. The cooler air above the sea, now with higher sea level pressure, flows inland into the lower pressure, creating a cooler breeze near the coast.  At night, the land cools off more quickly than the ocean because of differences in their specific heat values. This temperature change causes the daytime sea breeze to dissipate. When the temperature onshore cools below the temperature offshore, the pressure over the water will be lower than that of the land, establishing a land breeze, as long as an onshore wind is not strong enough to oppose it.

Name

Nature of wind

Place

Chinook (Snow eaters)

Hot, dry wind

The Rockies mountains

Foehn

Hot, dry wind

The Alps

Khamsin

Hot, dry wind

Egypt

Siroco

Hot, moist wind

Sahara to the Mediterranean Sea

Solano

Hot, moist wind

Sahara to the Iberian Peninsula

Harmattan (Guinea Doctor)

Hot, dry wind

West Africa

Bora

Cold, dry wind

Blows from Hungary to North Italy

Mistral

Cold wind

The Alps and France

Punas

Cold dry wind

Western side of Andes Mountain

Blizzard

Cold wind

Tundra region

Purga

Cold wind

Russia

Levanter

Cold wind

Spain

Norwester

Hot wind

New Zealand

Santa Ana

Hot wind

South California

Karaburun (black storm)

Hot dusty wind

Central Asia

Calima

Dust-laden dry wind

Saharan Air Layer across the Canary Islands

Elephanta

Moist wind in monsoon

Malabar coast

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