The trade winds are the east to southeasterly winds (in the Southern Hemisphere) which affect tropical and subtropical regions, including the northern areas of Australia.
Trade Winds - the wind system, occupying most of the tropics, which are northeasterly in the Northern Hemisphere and southeasterly in the Southern Hemisphere ...
Trade winds
East to southeast winds (in the southern hemisphere) which affect tropical and sub-tropical regions, including the northern half of Australia.
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TRADE WINDS Two belts of prevailing winds that blow easterly from the subtropical high pressure centers towards the equatorial trough. Primarily lower level winds, they are characterized by their great consistency of direction.
Trade winds - winds that blow trade ships in a westerly direction.
Vortex - a spiral of wind
Weather - the observable and measure conditions of the outdoor atmosphere.
Trade Winds The winds that occupy most of the tropics and blow from subtropical highs to the equatorial low.
Trade Winds
Persistent tropical winds that blow from the subtropical high pressure centers towards the equatorial low.
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Trade Winds- easterly-blowing winds that are found on either side of the equator and blow northeasterly in the Northern Hemisphere and southeasterly in the Southern Hemisphere.
trade winds: wind system in the tropics that blows from the subtropical high pressure areas to the equatorial low pressure area. They are northeast winds in the Northern Hemisphere and southeast winds in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Tropopause - The upper boundary of the troposphere, ...
Trade winds Prevailing planetary-scale surface winds in tropical latitudes; blow from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
trade winds—Prevailing, almost continuous winds blowing with an easterly component from the subtropical high pressure belts toward the intertropical convergence zone; northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, ...
Trade Winds Surface air from the horse latitudes that moves back toward the equator and is deflected by the Coriolis Force, causing the winds to blow from the Northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the Southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
Trade Winds: Winds that divert from the subtropical high-pressure belts towards the intertropical convergence zone. They blow northeasterly in the Northern Hemisphere and southeasterly in the Southern Hemisphere.
Trade winds are the winds that blow from the tropical high pressure belts (situated at about 30°) towards the equatorial region of low pressure.
Trade Winds - Winds which blow from tropical high pressure belts toward the equatorial region of low pressure. In the Northern Hemisphere, the trade winds blow from the northeast.
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Transverse Bands - Bands of clouds oriented perpendicular to the flow in which they are embedded. They often are seen best on satellite photographs.
TRADE WINDS - Moderate winds blowing over tropical regions, usually from an easterly direction. Called so because these winds were very important for sailors visiting America for trade purposes during the 1700's.
The trade winds accumulate warm surface water around Indonesia, raising the sea level roughly half a meter higher in the western Pacific.
The Trade Winds are the most familiar consistent and reliable winds on the planet, exceeded in constancy only by the katabatic winds of the major ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland.
Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)The region where the northeasterly and southeasterly trade winds converge, forming an often continuous band of clouds or thunderstorms near the equator.InversionAn increase in temperature with height.
EASTERLIES Usually applied to the broad patterns of persistent winds with an easterly component, such as the easterly trade winds.
Hadley cell A direct thermally-driven and zonally symmetric large- scale atmospheric circulation first proposed by George Hadley in 1735 as an explanation for the trade winds.
antitrades"A deep layer of westerly winds in the troposphere above the surface trade winds of the Tropics. They comprise the equatorward side of the midlatitude westerlies, but are found at upper levels rather than at the surface.
trades - Common contraction for trade winds.
trajectory - (Or path.) A curve in space tracing the points successively occupied by a particle in motion. At any given instant the velocity vector of the particle is tangent to the trajectory.
During the fall in the Northern Hemisphere, the winds which are blowing from east to west, (NORTHEAST TRADE WINDS), from the equator to about 30 degrees north latitude, in the Southern Hemisphere, the (SOUTHEAST TRADE WINDS), ...
INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ) An area where the Northern and Southern Hemispheric trade winds converge, usually located between 10 degrees North and South of the equator.
(abbrev. ITCZ) The boundary zone separating the northeast trade winds of the Northern Hemisphere from the southeast trade winds of the Southern Hemisphere.
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The area in tropical regions where the trade winds from the northern and southern hemispheres meet. Characterised by cloud and rain. The zone moves north and south with the northern and southern summers.
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La Nifia - An episode of strong trade winds and unusually low sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific. The opposite of El Niflo.
Lapse Rate - See Environmental Lapse Rate; Normal Lapse Rate.
Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) The boundary zone separating the northeast trade winds of the Northern Hemisphere from the southeast trade winds of the Southern Hemisphere.
EL NIÑO: A large scale weakening of the trade winds and warming of the surface layers in the Equatorial eastern and central Pacific Ocean.
Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ): A convective region separating the trade winds.
Ionosphere: The uppermost atmospheric shell characterized by a high ion density.
The clockwise geostrophic winds drive a parade of lows onto northern lands, and easterly trade winds in the tropics. In the winter, a strong Siberian high, with pressures above 1035 mb, and a high in the western U.S., the Intermountain High, form.
The easterly trade winds (NE in the northern hemisphere and SE in the southern hemisphere) converge here, forcing air to rise which triggers convective storms and squalls.
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Browse Related Terms: BD, Blowing Snow, Blowing Snow Advisory, BN, FLG, Gap Winds, Geostrophic wind, Nor\'easter, Set-up, trade winds, Westerlies ...
 See also: Water, Surface, Temperature, Pressure, Air
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