- Trade winds - Wikipedia
Trade winds have been used by captains of sailing ships to cross the world's oceans for centuries They enabled European colonization of the Americas, and trade routes to become established across the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
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- Trade Winds | NOAA SciJinks – All About Weather
NOAA’s GOES-East satellite keeps an eye on how trade winds impact the movement of hurricanes and tropical storms toward the southeastern United States In this video, GOES-East captured cumulus clouds east of the Caribbean Islands being carried west by the trade winds
- Trade Winds, Horse Latitudes, and the Doldrums - ThoughtCo
Blowing from the subtropical highs or horse latitudes toward the low pressure of the ITCZ are the trade winds Named from their ability to quickly propel trading ships across the ocean, the trade winds between about 30° latitude and the equator are steady and blow about 11 to 13 miles per hour
- Trade Winds - globalsailingweather. com
Trade winds were introduced in Chapter 1 (Global weather patterns) as the equatorward blowing part of the Hadley cell Because many cruising boats spend a lot of time in the trade wind region, some more detailed information is given in this chapter
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