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In a book I read, I believe the author defined wind as the sum of breezes, weather, and climate.

  • breezes: hyper-local disturbances, due to topology or uneven heating of surfaces
  • weather: the movement of air due to regional atmospheric highs and lows
  • climate: the steady state air movement linked to, e.g., latitude

The sum of these three vector fields is the true wind at any given moment, at any given spot.

Two questions:

  1. Is this definition correct?
  2. Is this definition in common use?
Kenn Sebesta
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    Which book was this? Please edit it into your answer. – Spencer Jun 22 '22 at 18:29
  • @Spencer, apologies but I have no recollection. This was years ago that I read it. But it was beautifully simple so the gist of things stuck with me. – Kenn Sebesta Jun 23 '22 at 19:14
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    This is the first time I come across such definitions used this way. In a broad sense, there's an element of truth to them, but there's also much more to it. – Fred Jun 24 '22 at 00:43
  • It is kind of as if saying your velocity is combination of where you are supposed to be going, where you are reporting you are going and where you are actually going. – Poutnik Jun 24 '22 at 09:59

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