# Sun-Driven Weather Systems

Understand how the Sun drives weather: the Sun heats Earth's surface unevenly (land heats faster than water, equator gets more heat than poles), creating differences in air pressure that cause wind patterns, ocean currents, and large-scale weather systems

Builds on: Weather vs Climate (soft, https://ai.page/c/weather-vs-climate-science/en.md), The Water Cycle (hard, https://ai.page/c/the-water-cycle-science/en.md), Sunlight warms things up (soft, https://ai.page/c/sunlight-warms-things-up/en.md), What Causes Wind (hard, https://ai.page/c/what-causes-wind/en.md)

Concept id: sun-driven-weather-systems. Subject: science. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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