Hadley cell
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hadley-cell-173-10271
title:
Hadley cell
text:
The Hadley cell, also known as the Hadley circulation, is a global-scale tropical atmospheric circulation that features air rising near the equator, flowing poleward near the tropopause at a height of 12–15 km (7.5–9.3 mi) above the Earth's surface, cooling and descending in the subtropics at around 25 degrees latitude, and then returning equatorward near the surface. It is a thermally direct circulation within the troposphere that emerges due to differences in insolation and heating between the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Tropical atmospheric circulation feature
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell
date created:
2004-01-16T22:24:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T04:04:48Z
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13
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