The Physical Environment

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Atmospheric Circulation

Looking Back: Patterns Aloft, Ocean Circulation, and Future Geographies

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1. Where are the upper air easterlies and upper air westerlies located?

2. What is the polar front and polar front jet stream?

3. What is the circumpolar vortex?.

4. What is the relationship between coastal location and wind-driven cold and warm currents?

5. List the effects of global warming on:

Global scale pressure

Jet streams

El Nino/La Nina

Monsoon

Local winds

 

 

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For Citation: Ritter, Michael E. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography.
Date visited.  http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/title_page.html

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