In many cases, buildings are close to trees which, if upwind of the building, can significantly alter the wind flow.
The Princeton researchers suggested that surface roughness and turbulence associated with buildings can alter the wind flow and perhaps amplify the meteorological processes (primarily lift) that cause precipitation clouds.
Of course, Mars differs from Earth in its atmosphere, gravity, and type of rock, among other things, so more work is necessary to fully understand how those conditions might alter the wind's ability to modify a canyon on that planet.
You can alter the winds blowing across a virtual ocean's surface or see how volcanoes accumulate along the boundaries of colliding tectonic plates.
Far from the storm, the Cassini temperature measurements showed a dramatic ~10 K cooling in the 0.5 5 mbar range across the entire equatorial region, disrupting the regular QPO pattern and significantly altering the middle-atmospheric wind structure, suggesting an injection of westward momentum into the equatorial wind system from waves generated by the northern storm.
There's also no way to alter the prevailing winds over the ocean; you might as well try to keep the Earth from spinning.
And we may be able to alter the political winds by capturing capital and money for our side, therefore becoming a mighty force and a powerful influencer.
Depending on how the seven-member court rules, the decision could wind up altering the sentences for all 389 of the state's death-row inmates or just those who are at a certain point in their appeals process.
When Tony Allen was interviewed on live television after an otherwise meaningless midseason game in 2011, nobody could have known that he would wind up altering the culture of the Memphis Grizzlies, or that the words he delivered would soon adorn billboards and T-shirts, posters and towels.
Hot exoplanets with semi-major axes smaller than 0.05 AU can go considerable alteration from the high energy radiation of their host stars radiation from driving winds to altering the thermal profiles to disintegrating nearby planets.
