wind

• Wind moves from high pressure to low pressure
• This movement is because the air is trying to reach equilibrium
• Wind is a moving force that can erode, transport, and deposit
• Aeolian processes, like wind, contribute to shaping coastal landscapes (e.g., dried sand shifted by wind)
• Wind is the energy source for coastal erosion and sediment transport by wave action, with waves formed by the frictional drag of wind moving across the ocean surface
• Aeolian processes do not drive waves
• The bigger the fetch (the distance of open water in one direction from a coastline over which the wind can blow), the more powerful the waves
• Height of wave = 0.36 × √fetch