Chapter 18: Air Pressure and Wind Word List:

air pressure aneroid barometer anticyclone barograph barometric tendency Chinook Convergence Coriolis effect Country breeze cup anemometer cyclone divergence El Niño equatorial low

geostrophic wind high isobar jet stream land breeze La Niña Low mercury barometer monsoon mountain breeze polar easterlies polar front polar high

pressure gradient pressure tendency prevailing wind Santa Ana sea breeze Southern Oscillation subpolar low subtropical high trade winds valley breeze westerlies wind wind vane