10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTITRADES»
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1
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
These winds have descended from the upper regions of the atmosphere in the
torrid zone, and are the antitrades, which, according to Kane's observations,
largely prevail even into the polar basin. If, as we have seen, the trade-winds
were the ...
2
The Facts on File Dictionary of Weather and Climate
Arctic northern and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. antitrades /an-
tee-traydz/ The winds that occur in the upper troposphere above the surface
easterly TRADE WINDS. Typically occurring above 2000 m (6500 ft), the
antitrades ...
Farther south still we find the N.W. Antitrades. These are variable winds which
blow mostly from the northwest and are very like the southwest winds which blow
over the British Isles. The little maps opposite show the winds by means of arrows
.
4
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
current; AM — (fresh) SE trade; M= (SW) monsoon (deflected SE trade) ; CAs =
SW antitrades (north, hem.) ; CAm = SE antitrades. (Dates in ( ) give duration of
the air mass). General Arrangement of Air Masses over West Africa in August ...
5
Climates and Weather Explained
The antiTrades are deflected by the Coriolis force to become patchy upper
westerlies much interrupted by other winds, especially over the continents. The
Coriolis deflection prevents the antiTrades reaching further towards the pole than
about ...
Bart Geerts, Edward Linacre,
2002
6
The Dictionary of Physical Geography
... 48, 51 toxic waste 4, 51 see also pollution tracers 258, 49344 tractive force 152
, 213, 251, 494 trade winds 494 antitrades 25 easterly wave 159 La Nina 287
and ocean currents 113, 166, 169 temperature inversion 481 transfer function
494 ...
David S. G. Thomas, Andrew S. Goudie,
2009
7
The Facts on File Dictionary of Earth Science
See also exsolution; perthite. antithetic fault A minor normal fault associated with
a major fault but whose planes dip into the main fault plane. antitrades /an-tee-
traydz/ Originally considered to be the returning flow in the upper atmosphere for
...
Jacqueline Smith, John O. E. Clark, Stella E. Stiegeler,
2009
8
Physical Geography: Great Systems and Global Environments
0° southeast trades subtropical high subtropical high 30° 30° subtropical high
subtropical high intertropical convergence zone antitrades northeast trades Aloft,
at an elevation of about 12 kilometers, the ITCZ air fans out and moves back ...
William M. Marsh, Martin M. Kaufman,
2012
This current is known as the antitrades. Already at approximately 30° N. or S. this
current appears as an eastward flow, which has cooled sufficiently to be sinking
to the earth's surface in the high pressure belts at these latitudes. From these ...
10
Bulletin of the National Research Council
Further, the trades and antitrades are probably not fully understood. Certainly
these wind systems undergo pronounced changes that are independent of the
seasonal changes. In connection with the antitrades, Sir Napier Shaw in a recent
...