"action of wind" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the effect of wind on an object or environment, for example: "The action of wind caused the leaves to blow across the park."
Waves result from the action of wind on water.
As the block was uplifted the abrupt, east-facing escarpment was cut into by the erosive action of wind, rain, temperature change, frost, and ice, and a series of steep-gradient canyons developed.
Such birds, and other coastal animals, will be killed in droves.Yet according to Robin Law, a marine chemist at the Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, a British government research agency, inshore waters in areas exposed to the scouring action of wind and tide will recover within two to three years.
In addition, in very deep lakes the thermal reserve built up during summer heating may be too large to allow cooling to the freezing point, or the action of wind over large fetches may prevent a stable ice cover from forming.
This is especially apparent in the great Surf series, wave on changing wave of pure shape, and in his images of sand dunes pleated and folded by the action of wind, rising in knife-edge triangles one behind the other, nothing but form: the merciless geometry of Death Valley abstracted.
The action of wind pressures is a major consideration in the design of cladding and its connections to building structures.
By natural action it then became a shallow inland sea, biting deep into the land, and eventually it was hollowed into an almost circular shape by the action of winds and tides.
The son of a naval architect, he studied the Sydney site from nautical charts purchased at a marine bookstore in Copenhagen, to get a feel for the action of winds and tides against the landform.
Wind forces contribute up to 35%% of axial forces in the exterior column for WL+DL case, due to the combined action of wind-induced sway and torsional loads near the building perimeter.
By exposing the soil surface to the erosive action of winds, these disturbances contribute to the redistribution of soil nutrients associated with grassland-to-shrubland conversions and to the formation of a heterogeneous landscape.
Alluvial gold deposits are formed through the weathering actions of wind, rain, and temperature change on rocks containing gold.
