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Ever wondered how the wind is made? Reading Meteorology postdoc Dr Hannah Bloomfield has the answer. She explains all in this new post for The Conversation’s ‘Curious Kids’ series.
The wind has always been very important to us humans: from thousands of years ago, when sailors used the wind to cross the sea in ships, right up to today, as we make electricity from wind turbines.
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But it’s taken a long time for scientists to understand exactly how the wind is made.
Although we can’t see it, the air is made up of billions and billions of tiny particles. There are lots of different types of particles in the air, but the most common ones are nitrogen and oxygen (which is what humans and other animals need to breathe).
The wind blows when these air particles move around in the Earth’s atmosphere.
The atmosphere is an envelope of gases, which surrounds the Earth. It’s around 100 kilometres thick, which is about the length of 4,000 blue whales.
Most of the particles that make up the Earth’s atmosphere are found closer to the surface.
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