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Wind Driven Surface Currents: Equatorial Currents Background The Intertropical Convergence Zone, or ITCZ, is the region that circles the Earth, near the equator, where the trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres come together. The intense sun and warm water of the equator heats the air in the ITCZ, raising its humidity and making it buoyant.
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8 The prevailing winds that blow from the subtropical highs located around 30 degrees latitude toward the doldrums are called: trade winds. During the summer season, the subtropical high found in the North Atlantic is also called the:
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Intertropical Convergence Zone In the seamen's speech the zone is referred to as the doldrums because of its erratic weather patterns with stagnant calms and violent thunderstorms. The ITCZ appears as a band of clouds, usually thunderstorms, that circle the globe near the equator.In the Northern Hemisphere, the trade winds move in a southwestern direction from the northeast, while in the Southern Hemisphere, they move northwestward from the southeast.or instance, when the ITCZ is situated north of the equator, the southeast trade wind changes to a southwest wind as it crosses the equator. The ITCZ is formed by vertical motion largely appearing as convective activity of thunderstorms driven by solar heating, which effectively draw air in; these are the trade winds.
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Contents Definition. The Inter Tropical Convergence Zone, or ITCZ, is a belt of low pressure which circles the Earth generally near the equator where the trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres come together. It is characterised by convective activity which generates often vigorous thunderstorms over large areas.efinition. The Inter Tropical Convergence Zone, or ITCZ, is a belt of low pressure which circles the Earth generally near the equator where the trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres come together. It is characterised by convective activity which generates often vigorous thunderstorms over large areas.
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General Circulation of the Atmosphere The circulation cell closest to the equator is called the Hadley cell. Winds are light at the equator because of the weak horizontal pressure gradients located there. The warm surface conditions result in locally low pressure.
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Intertropical Convergence Zone For instance, when the ITCZ is situated north of the equator, the southeast trade wind changes to a southwest wind as it crosses the equator. The ITCZ is formed by vertical motion largely appearing as convective activity of thunderstorms driven by solar heating, which effectively draw air in; these are the trade winds.s the ITCZ migrates more than 500 kilometres (300 mi) from the equator during the respective hemisphere's summer season, increasing Coriolis force makes the formation of tropical cyclones within this zone more possible.
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Horse Latitudes The doldrums, usually located between 5° north and 5° south of the equator, are also known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone or ITCZ for short.
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Flashcard Machine -create, study and share online flash cards On Earth between 30° north latitude and the equator, winds flow from the __________ as they flow out of the __________ pressure zone toward the ITCZ. NE; subtropical high. The intertropical convergence zone is characterized by. convergence and uplift of warm surface air.
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- The Gulf Stream, located along the eastern coast of the United States, is a fast, intense current known as a western-boundary current.These currents are located on the western side of every ocean basin. The Gulf Stream is a result of the wind pattern acting on most of the North Atlantic Ocean.The combination of the Trade Winds (10°- 25°N) blowing to the west and the Westerlies (35°- 55°N) blowing to the east cause the North Atlantic to rotate clockwise.long the east coast of Florida the current is fed by the Antilles Current, and the flow, now called the Gulf Stream, runs parallel to the coast until reaching Cape Hatteras where it leaves the coast and enters deeper water. While flowing in deep water the Stream often forms large meanders or flucuations in its path.
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- The Doldrums . The Doldrums, also known as the Equatorial Convergence Zone. The axis, or a portion of the broad trade wind of the tropics. This axis is the dividing line …between the southeast trades and the northeast trades, of the Southern and Northern hemispheres converging around the equator.
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Trade Winds, Horse Latitudes, and the Doldrums Horse Latitudes Between about 30° to 35° north and 30° to 35° south of the equator lies the region known as the horse latitudes or the subtropical high. This region of subsiding dry air and high pressure results in weak winds.
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- Located near the equator, the doldrums are where the trade winds meet and where the pressure gradient decreases creating very little winds. That's why sailors find it difficult to cross the equator and why weather systems in the one hemisphere rarely cross into the other hemisphere.
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- Cold heavy air flows south from the north pole and is bent west, forming the polar easterlies. Warm air rises at the equator drawing air from the north which bends to the west, contributing to the trade winds. The Coriolis effect bends the westerlies and trade winds slightly clockwise in the northern hemisphere. Hot air rises at the doldrums. As it rises, it cools producing thunderstorms. The dry air flows north at a high altitude and descends at the horse latitudes and flows back to the equator with the trade winds. This is called the Hadley cell.
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(p). Global Scale Circulation of the Atmosphere These three circulation cells are known as the: Hadley cell; Ferrel cell; and Polar cell. In the new model, the equator still remains the warmest location on the Earth. This area of greater heat acts as a zone of thermal lows known as the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ).
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Trade Winds, Horse Latitudes, and the Doldrums Trade Winds. Blowing from the subtropical highs or horse latitudes toward the low pressure of the ITCZ are the trade winds. Named from their ability to quickly propel trading ships across the ocean, the trade winds between about 30° latitude and the equator are steady and blow about 11 to 13 miles per hour.
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Wind Driven Surface Currents: Equatorial Currents Background The Intertropical Convergence Zone, or ITCZ, is the region that circles the Earth, near the equator, where the trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres come together.
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Trade winds The surface air that flows from these subtropical high-pressure belts toward the Equator is deflected toward the west in both hemispheres by the Coriolis effect. These winds blow predominantly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.istorically, the trade winds have been used by captains of sailing ships to cross the world's oceans for centuries, and enabled European empire expansion into the Americas and trade routes to become established across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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trade wind trade′ wind`. Often, trade winds. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the world's tropics and subtropics, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.ften trade winds Any of a consistent system of prevailing winds occupying most of the tropics, constituting the major component of the general circulation of the atmosphere, and blowing northeasterly in the Northern Hemisphere and southeasterly in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Trade winds The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator.rade winds originate more from the direction of the poles (northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, southeast in the Southern Hemisphere) during the cold season, and are stronger in the winter than the summer.
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Wind Driven Surface Currents: Equatorial Currents Background The prevailing surface winds over the tropical ocean are the trade winds that blow persistently from the northeast (toward the southwest) in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast (toward the northwest) in the Southern Hemisphere.
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All you wanted to know of Intertropical Convergence Zone / ITCZ By Matt Rosenberg. Near the equator, from about 5° north and 5° south, the northeast trade winds and southeast trade winds converge in a low pressure zone known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone or ITCZ.Solar heating in the region forces air to rise through convection which results in a plethora of precipitation.he Intertropical Convergence Zone has been called the doldrums by sailors due to the lack of horizontal air movement (the air simply rises with convection). The ITCZ is also known as the Equatorial Convergence Zone or Intertropical Front.
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Trade Winds, Horse Latitudes, and the Doldrums Between about 30° to 35° north and 30° to 35° south of the equator lies the region known as the horse latitudes or the subtropical high. This region of subsiding dry air and high pressure results in weak winds.
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Oceanography chapter 6 The air that sinks at 30-degrees latitude also blows towards the poles. 2. The wind blows from west to east and is deflected by the Coriolis effect. The westerlies occur between 30-degrees and 60-degrees latitude in each hemisphere (north and south).
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Horse Latitudes Doldrums. Sailors noticed the stillness of the rising (and not blowing) air near the equator and gave the region the depressing name doldrums.. The doldrums, usually located between 5° north and 5° south of the equator, are also known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone or ITCZ for short. The trade winds converge in the region of the ITCZ, producing convectional storms that produce some of the world's heaviest precipitation regions. The ITCZ moves north and south of the equator depending on the season and solar energy received.
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- An important factor in our weather patterns is the “Coriolis Effect”. This phenomenon causes the winds at the equator to blow toward the west (opposite the direction of the earth’s spin at the equator). The winds loop around and blow from west to east at 30 degrees north and south of the equator.
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What Is The Best Circuit Training Workout? So if strength is a goal, circuit training as your main workout is not for you. Similarly, due to the decrease in weight one must use while training in a circuit fashion, hypertrophy will never be a real benefit of circuit training. Circuit training may be difficult to do in a crowded gym because you will need the machines to be all available so that you can use them quickly without resting or waiting. 2  Solution: Be flexible, and use a different machine or use dumbbells instead of a machine of the particular machine you need is not available.