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Weather and Surface Currents

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These storms are caused when rising warm wind is drawn into an area of low pressure and twists around on itself.
These are what tropical cyclones are called in the Eastern Hemisphere.
When wind blows offshore and pushes away warm surface water so colder deep waters come up to replace them.
These are tropical cyclones. The name is from the western hemisphere.
These boundary currents tend to be cool, wide, slow, shallow and not have eddies.
These are where to air cells meet.
These boundary currents have warm waters, run fast, deep, narrow and tend to have eddies.
These are the major circular currents. There are five, one for each major ocean basin.
These are weather patters caused by hot air rising off of land and cool moist air from the ocean moving in to replace it. They bring heavy seasonal rains.
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These are found near 30 degrees where the Hadley and Ferrel Cells meet. Seas next to these dry areas tend to have high salinity.
These effect the currents by pushing on the water from above.
This effect helps create the spin we see in air cells and the circular pattern of gyres.
When wind blows onshore and pushes warm surfaces waters down off the land and back into the deep ocean.
These are the currents that occur between 0-400 meters.
These currents occur at the equator because of backflow caused by lack of wind in the doldrums.
This is the name for the storms caused by extratropical cyclones.
This is an area near the equator where wind stops because the Hadley Cells meet.