Eulerian wind

A wind motion only in response to the pressure force; the cyclostrophic wind is a special case of the Eulerian wind, which is limited in its meteorological applicability to those situations in which the Coriolis effect is negligible.

Related terms:

• gradient wind
• geostrophic wind
• isallobaric wind
• antitriptic wind
• wind
• Eulerian nutation
• subgradient wind
• supergradient wind
• thermal wind equation
• cyclostrophic wind