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Icon representing a cold front.
Cold Front
Wind
Weather: wind 3
Illustration of wind flow
Weather: wind 2
This diagram illustrates the main threats from hurricanes and tropical storms. The counterclockwise circulation of winds in the Northern Hemisphere causes maximum winds and maximum storm surges.
Threats from Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
Some plants use the wind as the primary means of seed dispersal. This is the case with Taraxacum spp. (Dandelion) as well as others such as Acer spp (Maple).
Seed parachute
Illustration of erosion.
Erosion
Two men in a boat set their trotline early in the morning in Town Creek, Oxford, MD
Setting the Trotline
Illustration of a 2D coastline with nearshore reef.
Coastline 2D: nearshore reef
Illustration of a wind turbine
Energy: wind turbine 1
Palm trees sway in the trade winds along Maui
Palm tree in the wind
Death Valley has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Scubby tree on Telescope Peak trail
Palm tree at sunset on Maui swaying in the evening breeze
Palm Sunset
Death Valley has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Death Valley National Park
Winds create sand patterns at Mesquite Flat Dunes. Death Valley National Park has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Patterns in the sand
Death Valley has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Wind swept tree
Death Valley has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Wind twisted tree on mountainside
Palm tree swaying in the sunset breeze at Maui
Palm Tree at Sunset
This tree is found along the trail to Telescope Peak. It struggles against winds and altitude. Death Valley has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Scrubby tree at high altitude
Nevada
Dust storm
Near the mouth of Delaware Bay at Cape May, New Jersey at sunset in the winter. The trail through the dune grasses leads to the beach.
Delaware Bay
Symbol showing a tree damaged by wind, lightning strike or other disturbance
Damaged tree
Illustration of a cloud blowing air symbolizing wind
Weather: wind 1
Illustration of a wind vector, the two- or three-dimensional vector describing the instantaneous wind magnitude and direction at a point (often using Cartesian coordinates; i.e. X and Y wind vectors). The term can also apply to the resultant wind vector which is sometimes drawn as an arrow with length proportional to wind speed.
Weather: wind vector
A severe thunderstorm brought down shallow-rooted willow trees onto these cars, Cambridge, MD.
Storm damage
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