PBS
Pbs/global Weather Machine
This site explains wind systems as part of a global weather scheme, with illustrations.
Dan Satterfield
Wild Weather: Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page
A site to find out anything you want to know about weather, including clouds, tornadoes, satellites, radar, wind, climate, and more. Suitable for all ages. Also includes games, quizzes, and teacher resources.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Fact Sheet for El Nino
This site from the Univ. Corp. for Atmospheric Research provides detailed information on El Nino and its effects on the trade winds is offered at this site, with satellite photos.
NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: Reckoning With Winds
An article explaining how severe winds can lead to devastation and destroy homes, land, and injure people. Learn about different typhoons and cyclones and the effects they have had on our land.
National Weather Service
Noaa: National Weather Service: The New Improved "Wind Chill Index"
This resource provides a wind chill table and wind chill calculator. There is also an explanation for the changes that have occurred for calculating wind chill.
NASA
Nasa: Global Wind Patterns
This site from NASA lists and defines global wind patterns. It features a graphic of these patterns and a self-test with answers.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Air Pressure and Wind: Winds: Let It Blow
Animated interactive helps young researchers understand how winds develop.
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Coriolis Effect
This site from the University of Oregon provides a great explanation of the Coriolis Effect and then gives several chart type examples to help the understanding of it.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Modeling Wind Dynamics and Forests
In this activity, students will develop a model of a forest using plastic bottles and then observe and analyze changes in winds related to differences in forest density.
South Carolina Educational Television
South Caroline Etv Commission: Hurricane Basics | Nasa Online
Simulation provides details of hurricane parts, hurricane formation, and hurricane movement.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The 1991/1992 Drought
This site from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research offers information on drought and global climate conditions, with an explanation of the trade winds.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Air Out There
Cooperative learning activity in which pupils will create a windmill and a weather vane. Students will find the direction of wind and the speed relative to the spinning windmill. Great for K-2.
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Wind
What is wind? How is it caused? This site offers simple answers to many common questions about wind as well as a chart of the Beaufort scale, which "is an empirical measure for the intensity of the weather based mainly on wind power."
Other
Stormfax: El Nino Glossary
This site offers definitions for terms related to El Nino, including information on southern oscillation and its relationship to the trade winds.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Senegal: Geography
Although most of this article discusses the climate of Senegal, you can also find out its neighbors, terrain, and area. Information is from the CIA World Fact Book.
Other
National Pollutant Inventory: Background Information
This site focuses on water and air pollution in Australia, with a brief mention of sea breezes.
McREL International
Mcrel.org: Wind and Temperature [Pdf]
A worksheet regarding the wind direction and average air temperature at different elevations.
National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center: Factors Affecting Arctic Weather and Climate
An introduction to the factors that affect the Arctic's weather and climate: latitude, land/sea distribution, solar radiation, air temperature, air pressure, winds, humidity, clouds, and precipitation.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Wind Energy
What is wind energy? Learn how to use wind energy to generate power, how winds are formed, how it generates electricity, how a wind turbine works, and the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy.
Other
Unep/siem D2 Weather
This site offers information on the effects of weather on islands. There is some mention of sea breezes.
NASA
Nasa: Looking at Earth From Space Prevailing Westerlies
This site from NASA provides a basic definition for what prevailing westerlies are.