Winds and Ocean
- Created by: Charlie Davies
- Created on: 26-05-14 15:52
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- Wind and Ocean Currents
- Coriolis effect
- causes a deflection in global wind patterns. The anticlockwise rotation of the Earth deflects winds to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere.
- WIND
- large scale movements of air caused by difference in air pressure
- difference in air pressure caused by differences in atmospheric heating between equator and the poles
- winds are part of global atmospheric circulation cells
- these cells have a body of warm rising air which creates an area of low pressure, and a body of cool falling air=high pressure
- winds move from areas of high pressure to low pressure
- Hadley
- these cells have a body of warm rising air which creates an area of low pressure, and a body of cool falling air=high pressure
- large scale movements of air caused by difference in air pressure
- Coriolis effect
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