The horizontal movement of air is also known as wind. Local and Global winds are the two most general types of winds. Global Winds blow from a specific direction whereas local winds blow from any direction. Another difference between the two winds is local winds cover a shorter distance than global winds.
Local winds are caused by the small-scale convection currents. There are also two breezes that go along with local winds, a sea breeze and a land breeze. The air flow from the sea to the land is a sea breeze. A sea breeze occurs during the day as the warm air on land rises and the cool air from the sea takes the warm air’s place. Taking place during the night, a land breeze is when the warm air on the sea rises and the cool air on the land takes the warm air’s place. A common land and sea breeze is a monsoon.
Global Winds are mostly caused by the unequal heating of the Earth’s surface. Areas near the equator get the direct rays of the sun which heats the surface of the Earth very quickly. The warm air by the equator rises and sinks near the poles. Because of this a global pattern is produced. Global winds do not move north to south, but move from the rotation of the Earth. In the Northern Hemisphere, winds curve to the right and in the Southern Hemisphere, winds curve to the left. This movement of wind is called the Coriolis effect.
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