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| Huge hemispheric wind convection systems (3 per hemisphere) |
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| Winds of the temperate latitudes (move eastward) |
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| Cool easterlies move from temperate back to tropics |
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| Still air; no wind due to rising air at the equator |
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| Winds between 60 degrees - 90 degrees N and S latitudes |
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| Descending air here causes high pressure & subtropical deserts |
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| Cold northward moving current along west South America |
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| Cold northward moving current along west side of Africa |
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| Bending of wind due to differences in earth rotational speed |
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| This current brought the iceberg that sank Titanic in 1912 |
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| Cold current off New Foundland; gave great fishing to settlers |
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| Warm current off Atlantic seaboard; moves toward England |
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| Main southward current on east side of South America |
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| Warm tropical current moving north on east side of Japan |
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| Cold, nutrient rich water moves upward from ocean bottom |
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| Cool current off Spain moving southward to Africa |
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| Eastward warm current north and south of Equator |
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| Constantly blowing Westerlies of the Southern Hemisphere |
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| Current from Gulf Stream, carries warm water to England |
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| Tradewinds drive these huge westward moving currents |
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| This current responsible for great fishing along California coast |
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| S. Hemispheric current driven by the Roaring Forties |
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| High speed winds of upper Tropophere; determines storm |
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| Breakdown of tradewinds causes E. Pacific to rise in temperature |
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| Low pressure system w/ fast wind in N. Atlantic tradewind belt |
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| Cold high altitude air rushes down mountain to valley (night) |
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| Direction of wind during summer day at the local beaches |
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