Physical Causes and/or Accelerators of Droughts
- Created by: Crystal Parsons
- Created on: 08-06-20 11:47
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- Physical Causes and/or accelerators of Droughts.
- The ITCZ
- Where the two trade winds meet there is heavy precipitation.
- It moves between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
- Sometimes it does not move so far north or south.
- Dry areas do not get the needed rainfall - drought.
- Sometimes it does not move so far north or south.
- It moves between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
- Where the two trade winds meet there is heavy precipitation.
- El Nino and La Nina
- El Nino causes trade winds to reverse.
- Places that usually get a lot of rain, get a lot less - drought.
- La Nina causes normal weather to become more extreme.
- So if a country usually has little rainfall it now gets even less - drought.
- El Nino causes trade winds to reverse.
- Global Warming
- Temperatures naturally heat up which means that more water is evaporated.
- The ITCZ
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