1. Unit 6: Meteorology Take out your ESRT
6.6 Prevailing Winds
Unit 6: Meteorology
Take out your ESRT
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2. Prevailing Winds
Compare Earth's prevailing winds, with the surface ocean currents depicted in the Earth Science Reference Tables.
They normally move in the same direction.
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3. Winds and Ocean Surface
Wind is a major factor in moving the surface waters of Earth's oceans.
Like the prevailing winds, ocean currents also curve in response to the Coriolis Effect.
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4. Currents curve to the right of their original direction in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left of their original direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
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5. Prevailing Winds Winds blow in response to these changes.
Surface winds are part of atmospheric convection currents that include a return flow high above Earth.
The wind always blows from places of high pressure to places of lower pressure.
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