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Prevailing Winds
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Prevailing
WindsAKA: Global Wind Belts• Where convection cells (air masses)
meet forming jet streams and prevailing winds
• Winds move from a area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
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Easterlies: Polar Easterlies- high altitudes, cold
dense air that blows East to West. (from the Poles to the Equator)
Trade winds- Low altitudes, blow East to West toward the Equator.
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Westerlies:Mid latitudes blow West to East
toward the poles.
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Other:Pressure belts from inbetween the
wind belts
Doldrums: along the equator. Heating causes the sir to expand, resulting in cloudy, rainy weather.
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Trade winds
Blow East to West
PolarEasterlies
Color red
Equator
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Blow West to East
Color red
Equator
Prevailing westerlies
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Color red
Equator
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