how many types of wind are there?explain all type
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The Earth contains five major windzones: polar easterlies, westerlies, horse latitudes, trade winds, and the doldrums. Polar easterlies are dry, cold prevailingwinds that blow from the east.
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The various types of winds are:
(1) Permanent or Planetary winds:- Planetary winds, prevailing winds or permanent winds are those which blow continuously in the same belt all through the year. They blow from high pressure belt to low pressure belts. There are three main types of planetary winds - the trade winds, the westerlies and the easterlies. These winds are named according to the direction from which they blow.
(2) Periodic winds:-These are the winds blowing at a much smaller scale in comparison to the planetary winds.
The planetary winds include:
(1) Land and Sea Breezes
(2) Monsoons.
(3) Local winds:-
The local winds are truly local. They occur over a much smaller land scale and are related to the topographical features of that particular place. They blow for a short period and are caused due to the particular shape of the land or nearness to a body of water that generates a specific movement of air.
The examples of local winds in India: Kalbaisakhi (West Bengal), Loo (North India).
(4) Cyclones and Anticyclones:-
These are variable winds and not as constant in strength and direction as the trade winds. The westerly wind belt is characterised by frequent cyclones and anti-cyclones. They blow from the subtropical high pressures belt 30°
north and south of the Equator to the sub polar low pressure belt. In the Northern Hemisphere, they blow from SW to NE. In the Southern Hemisphere, the direction is NW to SE.