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What is the difference between westerly winds in the north and in the south hemisphere?
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∙ 6y ago
You can understand the same through the diagram of Hadley cells, Ferrel cells and Polar cells. You have pairs of them in both the north and the south hemispheres. You have very cold north and south poles. The equator is hottest. So the air should flow from north and south poles to the equator. This air flow will be in opposite direction. The same air should go up at the equator and then should flow to the north and south poles. But the distance is too long and you have three cells in the north hemisphere and three cells in the south hemisphere. So you have gear like mechanism to facilitate the air flow. So all the six cells move in opposite direction to each other. So you have the pair of Hadley cells that moves in opposite direction to each other. So air flows from cold to hot region, towards the equator in both the cases. In case of the Polar cells also, air flows from cold region to hot region. Now you have to explain the flow of Ferrel cell. Here the air flows in opposite direction. This cell gets energy from the Hadley cell and Polar cell. Both of them give equal energy to Ferrel cell. This happens due to gear like mechanism and explains the reverse flow of the air in case of the Ferrel cell. That is why the westerlies flows in opposite direction to trade winds and polar easterlies.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 14y agoCoriolis force and pressure gradient force. There tends to be high pressure around 30 degrees and low pressure at both 60 degrees and the equator. Air flows from high to low, so with a non-rotating earth you would get "westerlies" flowing to the north and trade winds flowing to the south. But due to the Coriolis Force, the air is deflected to the right in the northern hemisphere. So the northerly winds would get deflected to the east (from the west) as the westerlies, and the southerly wind in the tropics gets deflected to the west (flowing from the east) as the trade winds.
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∙ 13y agoCoriolis Effect. Due to the spinning of the earth, it causes eddies at the equator which causes the easterly trade winds.
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∙ 11y agoIts because of the Coriolis Effect. Check out the related link for more information.
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∙ 9y agoThe westerlies flow in opposite direction to trade winds and polar easterlies due to latitude
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∙ 13y agoNo answer found.
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∙ 15y agono. i don't think so.
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