Geostrophic wind

Geostrophic wind - theoretical wind that would result from an exact balance between the Coriolis force and the pressure gradient force. Article “Geostrophic wind” in English Wikipedia has 17.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.9 points.

This article has the best quality in Estonian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Geostrophic wind” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Geostrophic wind”, its content was written by 86 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 326 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 90 times in English Wikipedia and cited 711 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #38072 in March 2004
• Global: #18178 in January 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #70464 in February 2012
• Global: #92038 in February 2012

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Estonian (et) Geostroofiline tuul		39.3772
2	Romanian (ro) Vânt geostrofic		22.9477
3	Croatian (hr) Geostrofički vjetar		22.8521
4	Arabic (ar) ريح دورانية أرضية		22.8403
5	French (fr) Vent géostrophique		22.6748
6	Polish (pl) Wiatr geostroficzny		19.4599
7	German (de) Geostrophischer Wind		18.0951
8	English (en) Geostrophic wind		17.077
9	Chinese (zh) 地轉風		16.2095
10	Spanish (es) Viento geostrófico		11.6625

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Geostrophic wind" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Geostrophic wind		801 966
2	German (de) Geostrophischer Wind		175 450
3	Spanish (es) Viento geostrófico		159 677
4	Japanese (ja) 地衡風		140 280
5	French (fr) Vent géostrophique		121 940
6	Chinese (zh) 地轉風		81 701
7	Russian (ru) Геострофический ветер		71 802
8	Italian (it) Vento geostrofico		62 420
9	Polish (pl) Wiatr geostroficzny		56 477
10	Swedish (sv) Geostrofisk vind		18 483

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Geostrophic wind" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Geostrophic wind		1 889
2	French (fr) Vent géostrophique		323
3	German (de) Geostrophischer Wind		239
4	Japanese (ja) 地衡風		220
5	Russian (ru) Геострофический ветер		219
6	Chinese (zh) 地轉風		203
7	Spanish (es) Viento geostrófico		185
8	Korean (ko) 지균풍		185
9	Italian (it) Vento geostrofico		152
10	Polish (pl) Wiatr geostroficzny		112

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Geostrophic wind" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Geostrophic wind		86
2	German (de) Geostrophischer Wind		42
3	French (fr) Vent géostrophique		34
4	Italian (it) Vento geostrofico		24
5	Japanese (ja) 地衡風		21
6	Russian (ru) Геострофический ветер		21
7	Polish (pl) Wiatr geostroficzny		15
8	Arabic (ar) ريح دورانية أرضية		11
9	Norwegian (no) Geostrofisk vind		10
10	Spanish (es) Viento geostrófico		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Geostrophic wind" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Geostrophic wind		1
2	Arabic (ar) ريح دورانية أرضية		0
3	Catalan (ca) Equilibri geostròfic		0
4	Danish (da) Geostrofisk balance		0
5	German (de) Geostrophischer Wind		0
6	Spanish (es) Viento geostrófico		0
7	Estonian (et) Geostroofiline tuul		0
8	Finnish (fi) Geostrofinen tuuli		0
9	French (fr) Vent géostrophique		0
10	Croatian (hr) Geostrofički vjetar		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Geostrophic wind" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Portuguese (pt) Vento geostrófico		213
2	French (fr) Vent géostrophique		163
3	English (en) Geostrophic wind		90
4	Spanish (es) Viento geostrófico		28
5	Japanese (ja) 地衡風		28
6	German (de) Geostrophischer Wind		24
7	Catalan (ca) Equilibri geostròfic		21
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Geostrofisk vind		21
9	Chinese (zh) 地轉風		16
10	Russian (ru) Геострофический ветер		15

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ريح دورانية أرضية
ca	Catalan Equilibri geostròfic
da	Danish Geostrofisk balance
de	German Geostrophischer Wind
en	English Geostrophic wind
es	Spanish Viento geostrófico
et	Estonian Geostroofiline tuul
fi	Finnish Geostrofinen tuuli
fr	French Vent géostrophique
hr	Croatian Geostrofički vjetar
it	Italian Vento geostrofico
ja	Japanese 地衡風
ka	Georgian გეოსტროფული ქარი
ko	Korean 지균풍
nl	Dutch Geostrofische wind
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Geostrofisk vind
no	Norwegian Geostrofisk vind
pl	Polish Wiatr geostroficzny
pt	Portuguese Vento geostrófico
ro	Romanian Vânt geostrofic
ru	Russian Геострофический ветер
sv	Swedish Geostrofisk vind
uk	Ukrainian Геострофічний вітер
uz	Uzbek Geostrofik shamol
zh	Chinese 地轉風

Best Rank

English: #70464 02.2012

Global: #92038 02.2012

Best Rank

English: #38072 03.2004

Global: #18178 01.2011

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