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high: pressure cell with mostly descending air
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| a line joining points of equal atmospheric pressure |
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| spinning out effect that causes wind to curve to the right in the northern hemisphere, and left in the southern hemisphere |
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| wind that moves parallel to the isobars (limit to the coriolis effect) |
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| named for the direction of origin |
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| wind from desert to ocean, funneled through valley, temp rises, humidity drops as wind drops in altitude |
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| intertropical convergence zone |
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| two complete vertical convective circulation cells, between the equator (warm air at ITCZ rises) and 25 to 30 degrees of latitude (air subsides into subtropical currents) |
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| very large N-S undulation of the westerlies and jet stream |
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| ITCZ moves with the thermal equator |
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| differential heating of land and water |
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| water cools and heats much more slowly than land does |
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| a seasonal reversal of winds |
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| in the upper ocean caused by winds |
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| flow westward at the equator |
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| spiral motion of water in a current |
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| reversal of wind patterns (allows warm water to slosh back in) |
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associated with el nino
periodic seesaw of atmospheric pressure in tropical southern pacific ocean basin |
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| cold, deep ocean water that rises to the surface where wind patterns deflect surface water away from the coast (especially common along west coasts of continents in subtropics and mid latitudes) |
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