Atmospheric Circulation

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Atmospheric Circulation
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Weather Climate

• Weather
• Climate

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Atmospheric Layers

• Troposphere
• Stratosphere
• Mesosphere
• Thermosphere
• Exosphere

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Composition of the Atmosphere

• Gases

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Atmospheric Circulation

• Powered by sun light

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Uneven Solar Heating and Latitude

• Polar latitude
• Tropical latitude

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Uneven Solar Heating and the Seasons

• Tilt of Earths rotational axis

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Uneven Solar heating and Atmospheric Circulation

• Global circulation
• Governed by two factors
• Uneven solar heating
• The rotation of the earth
• Coriolis effect

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The Coriolis effect and Atmospheric Circulation
Cells

• Hadley cells
• Ferel cells
• Polar cells

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Wind patterns

• Doldrums
• Intertropical convergence zone or ITCZ
• Horse latitudes
• Trade winds
• Westerlies
• Polar easterlies
• Geographic equator
• Meterological equator

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• Monsoon
• Sea breeze
• Land breeze
• Storms
• Cyclones
• tornado

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Air mass

• Front
• Vilhelm Bjerknes
• Extra tropical Cyclones
• Polar front
• Frontal storms
• Noreasters (northeasters)
• Tropical Cyclones
• Hurricanes
• Typhoons
• Tropical storms
• Tropical depressions