Trade Winds

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Weather

Persistent tropical winds that blow from the subtropical high pressure centers towards the equatorial low.

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Climate Change

a system of low-level winds occurring in the tropics; the trade winds blow from the northeast to the equator in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast to the equator in the Southern Hemisphere.

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