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Because jet streams are above the friction layer, they have a negligible effect. The wind is balanced by the Coriolis effect and the pressure gradient so that the winds flow parallel to isobars.
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What high altitude winds that occur in places where trade winds and polar easterlies meet prevailing westerlies?
The "Jet Stream".
How do jet streams affect air masses?
When an air mass moves into an area and interacts with other air masses, it causes the weather to change. In the continental United States, air masses are commonly moved by the prevailing westerlies and jet streams.
How does the jet stream affect the weather of a particular area?
The various jet streams steer the weather (they push the fronts), as they move they can cause large changes in local weather (block rain or cause rain ... make it cold or hot).
What is forced convection?
Convection caused by frontal or orographic lifting, or converging surface winds.
What is the name of a natural current in the atmosphere?
I wasn't at that particular lecture, but my first guesses are "wind" in general, "jet stream" being one particular current. More specifically, there are polar and subtropical jet streams, as well as polar night jets, barrier jets, valley exit jets, the African easterly jet, and I will be interested to learn if more are being discovered and whether all of them are permanent or if they will all become something else.
Jet streams generally flow toward the?
The major jet streams on Earth are westerly winds that flow west to east.
What are high altitude rivers of air?
you mean jet streams...or thermals?
What are narrow belts of strong winds at high altitudes which flow from east to west called?
Jet Streams
Fast moving currents of air found near the top of the troposphere are called?
Jet streams~ Rebecca
Where are the major jet streams in the ocean?
There are 2 jet streams in the northern hemisphere and 2 in the southern hemisphere. They are known as the subtropical jet stream and the polar jet streams subsequently for get side.
What are high altitude high velocity of air called?
jet streams
What do you call narrow belts of strong winds at high altitudes which flow from west to east?
They're called jet-streams.
What two major jet streams are in the northern hemisphere?
The Polar Jet Stream and the Subtropical Jet Stream are the two strongest jet streams in the Northern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere has two major jet streams like the Northern Hemisphere.
What layer does the jet stream flow below?
The main jet streams are located near the tropopause, the transition between the troposphere (where temperature decreases with altitude) and the stratosphere(where temperature increases with altitude).
How do jet streams create local storms?
Jet Streams are fast blowing winds above the troposphere. The blow at speeds of upto 120kmph. When two jet streams collide it causes storms.
What is a band of fast winds formed by different temperatures between convection currents?
A band of very fast wind that is formed by the different temperatures between huge convection currents is called a jet stream. Jet streams are narrowÊand they flow fast.
What are polar jet streams?
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