Although the prevailing winds are blowing the bulk of radio isotopes from the plant out over the Pacific Ocean,
periodic changes in weather patterns are dumping fallout inland, increasing the doses that residents receive.
13 C. Wind & Ocean Currents Wind & water combine w / the effects of the sun to influence
weather & climate Wind
Patterns Winds blow in fairly consistent patterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water tem
Patterns Winds blow
in fairly consistent
patterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water tem
patterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino
Periodic change in the
pattern of ocean currents & water temperature
Reichler and colleagues used
weather observations and 4,000 years worth of supercomputer simulations of
weather to show a surprising association between decade - scale,
periodic changes in stratospheric wind
patterns known as the polar vortex, and similar rhythmic
changes in deep - sea circulation
patterns.