ATMOSPHERE CIRCULATION

GROUP 5
5.RIVELDON SILALAHI
9.SAID AL-ABDULLAH
15.SYAID SYUBRI
 DIFFERENTIAL HEATING
 Heating difference---- THERMAL CIRCULATION
 Distribution of land and sea
 Karakteristik air :
panas yang diserap tidak langsung digunakan untuk
meningkatkan suhu, tetapi didistribusikan melalui
mekanisme konveksi, materi ikut bergerak
 Water characteristics:
 The heat absorbed is not directly used to increase
the temperature, but is distributed through a
convection mechanism, the material moves along
 Effect of surface slope (topography):
Slopes are heated first than valleys
 THERMAL CIRCULATION

986 mb

Air tends to
Air tends to expand
988 mb
settle

1000 mb
 In the lowest air layer near the earth's surface, air
movement is more strongly influenced by surface
conditions, so the concept of gradient wind is no longer fully
applicable.

 This layer is called the planetary boundary layer or

atmospheric boundary layer (ABL).

 Differences in shape and surface roughness such as

surface height; vegetation; rivers, lakes and mountains; will
cause a difference in the pattern of air movement above it.

 Eddy (ies): when the wind meets a solid object, a circular air
movement (whirl, eddies) is formed on the downwind side
with the size, shape and speed proportional to the object in
its path and the wind speed
WIND THE VALLES
 CHINOOK (FOEHN)

 Beetle
Wind
 Gending
Wind
 Bohorok
Wind
 Brubu
Wind
Chinook : rocky mountain; Foehn : peg Alpen
Rainshadow effect :
A chinook wall cloud forming over the Colorado Rockies (viewed from the plains)
 Santa Ana Winds
 Warm, dry wind blowing from
the east or northeast towards
South Carolina
 Air descends from the top of the
desert plateau, through the
mountain valleys of the San
Gabriel and San Bernardino,
spreading over the Los Angeles
basin and Fernando valley
 Lifting dust and sand, drying
vegetation, bush fires.
 DESERT WIND
 Sandstorm, dust devil, haboob

A haboob approaching Phoenix, Arizona. The dust cloud is rising to a

height of about 450 m (1475 ft) above the valley floor. Haboob forms
as cold downdrafts along leading edge of a thunderstorm lift dust or
sand into huge dark cloud that may cover over 100 kilometers
 The formation of a dust devil. On a hot,
dry day, the atmosphere next to the
ground becomes unstable. As the
heated air rises, wind blowing past an
obstruction twists the rising air, forming
a rotating column, or dust devil. Air from
the sides rushes into the rising column,
lifting sand, dust, leaves, or any other
loose material from the surface.
 NAMES OF SOME LOCAL WIND

Santa Ana: Southern California

Chinook: Rocky Mountains
Puelche: Western slope of the Andes
Foehn: Austria
Canterbury Northwester: New Zealand
Bora: Croatia.
Autan: France north of the Pyrenees
Bohorok: Sumatra
Ghibli: Libya
Haru Ichiban: Japan
Koembang: Java, Indonesia
Reshabar: Caucasus Mountains, Kurdistan
Warm Braw: Schouten Islands off the north coast of New
Guinea.
Zonda: Argentina
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