Sentences with phrase «descending air currents»

Descending air currents of High pressure systems are also the reason we have deserts and why the world's records for hottest temperatures on each continent are not at the equator but about 32 to 36 ° North as seen in the above diagram.

b. Most importantly descending air currents adiabatically generate a thermal ceiling that prevents rising convection currents from carrying away surface heat.

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My impression is that it is the area of the cloud free subtropical high pressure cells of descending air that is a strong variable factor explaining the change in the temperature of the in - feed waters that become the westerly currents that occupy the tropical latitudes.

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