Wind speed:

solar flux heats = bouyancy = motion

so the flow is turbulent.

Turnover time of eddy =

energy/vol of eddies = Energy dissipated by breaking eddies down to small scale so that diffusion can work.

power/vol transferred from scale l to scale = so = kolmogorov scale.

energy/area dissipated in amosphere: so

power dissipated by wind over US = solar flux over US * area of US = . Total electric power: . Total power = .

source psfile jl@crush.caltech.edu index weather