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How do interactions of air, water and land create earth's weather?
Hi Lisa
All are part of the process of weather; air houses weather, water provides the moisture for clouds and precipitation and land causes orographic and differential heating/wind effects. Of course you also need the sun!
For more, see:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=orographic
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/weather/
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/weather/watercycle.html
http://www.weatherknowledge.com/learn.html
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Any questions (except private) answered from the 1st grade level on up pertaining to any aspect of Weather. I am a 20 year member of the American Meteorological society and a long time forecaster of eastern United States snow storms and Hurricanes.
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