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    The trade winds or easterlies are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region. The trade winds blow mainly from...
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  • The Trade Winds was an American pop group formed in Providence, Rhode Island. The group's members were singer-songwriter and record producer Peter Anders...
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    Otherwise, when they are more dominated by the trade winds than the ITCZ, they are called tropical trade-wind climates. In pure equatorial climates, the atmospheric...
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  • TradeWinds is the world's biggest shipping news service, publishing both online news and a printed weekly newspaper, that covers shipping as a global industry...
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    prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction. The dominant winds are the trends...
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    in total) climate zones. The islands receive most rainfall from the trade winds on their north and east flanks (the windward side) as a result of orographic...
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    Trade wind cumulus (or trade cumulus) clouds are formed by cooling and moisture absorption of the dry trade winds over the relatively cold sea surface...
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    Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens...
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    windless weather, is the area where the northeast and the southeast trade winds converge. It encircles Earth near the thermal equator though its specific...
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  • Trade Wind Airport (FAA LID: MA44) is an airfield in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, located in Dukes County on the Island of Martha's Vineyard. The airfield...
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  • The trade winds are the permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region. Tradewind(s) or trade wind(s) may also refer...
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    north-to-northeast sides. Roughly perpendicular to the trade winds. Moderately rainy; frequent trade wind-induced showers. Skies are often cloudy to partly...
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    Columbus, the trade winds. He planned to first sail to the Canary Islands before continuing west by utilizing the northeast trade wind. Part of the return...
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    Triangular trade or triangle trade is trade between three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that...
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  • Trade Winds is a 1938 American comedy murder mystery film directed by Tay Garnett written by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and Frank R. Adams, based...
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  • of large family cars built since 1973 named after the German word for "trade wind". Passat may also refer to: Raymond Passat (1913-1988), a former French...
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  • of Arabia) Wind of 120 days (a four-month-long hot and dry wind over the Sistan Basin in Iran and Afghanistan) Alisio (easterly trade wind in the Caribbean)...
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    the structure and behavior of the Hadley circulation. The prevailing trade winds are a manifestation of the lower branches of the Hadley circulation,...
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    2 K weaker, and they experience less drying and smaller wind speed enhancement. The trade wind region is mainly drier and is characterized by subsiding...
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    known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate subtype that corresponds to the...
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  • northeasterly trade wind (of the same name), which blows from the Sahara over West Africa into the Gulf of Guinea. During this season, the wind transports...
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    wind activity in the study of geology and weather and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface of the Earth (or other planets). Winds may...
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  • Trade Winds, White Noise is Tim Hecker's second release. It was released on July 1, 2002, and distributed with copies of the 107th issue of Parachute...
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    temperatures that in turn alter the atmospheric winds in a positive feedback. Weaker easterly trade winds result in a surge of warm surface waters to the...
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    easterly trade wind. In couple with NEC, there is another current called South Equatorial Current (SEC), generated by the easterly trade wind in the southern...
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    through wind-assisted propulsion. The book Trade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping discusses the potential of a return to wind propulsion...
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    and dominant weather pattern, as trade wind, mid-latitude, rain shadow, coastal, monsoon, or polar deserts. Trade wind deserts occur either side of the...
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    Easterly trade winds pass across the island year round while the rainy season stretches from April into November. The relatively cool trade winds are blocked...
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    winds, and very little precipitation. They are also known as subtropical ridges or highs. It is a high-pressure area at the divergence of trade winds...
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    Atlantic. The tropical maritime air mass is a warm, humid and unstable trade wind. Convection currents form within the airmass whenever there is little...
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