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    The polar wind or plasma fountain is a permanent outflow of plasma from the polar regions of Earth's magnetosphere.: 29  Conceptually similar to the solar...
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  • of Earth's atmosphere, polar easterlies are the dry, cold prevailing winds that blow around the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the North and...
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  • Atmospheric molecules can also escape from the polar regions on a planet with a magnetosphere, due to the polar wind. Near the poles of a magnetosphere, the...
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    by the polar cyclone. In areas where winds tend to be light, the sea breeze/land breeze cycle is the most important cause of the prevailing wind; in areas...
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    A polar diagram, or polar plot, is a graph that shows a sailboat's potential speed over a range of wind speeds and relative wind angles. It normally consists...
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    Aurora (redirect from Polar Aurora)
    complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the...
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    had enough observations to forecast very high west winds that would slow bombers raiding Japan. Polar jet streams are typically located near the 250 hPa...
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    and impacts on weather. The stratospheric polar vortex is an area of high-speed, cyclonically rotating winds around 15 km to 50 km high, poleward of 50°...
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  • zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetosphere...
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  • form of a polar response curve In sailing, a Polar diagram is a graph that shows a sailing boats potential wind speed over a range of wind and sail angles...
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    katabatic wind but contain ephemeral streams and hypersaline lakes characteristic of extreme non-polar deserts, are not necessarily polar desert.[citation...
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    Using a polar coordinate system of gridding, the frequency of winds over a time period is plotted by wind direction, with colour bands showing wind speed...
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    Cyclone (section Polar low)
    characterized by inward-spiraling winds that rotate about a zone of low pressure. The largest low-pressure systems are polar vortices and extratropical cyclones...
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    spacecraft remains in orbit, though it is now inactive. Polar is the sister ship to GGS Wind. It was designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin, and...
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    easterlies, also known as Polar Hadley cells, are dry, cold prevailing winds that blow from the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the north and South...
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    patterns and ice core data do on Earth. Both polar caps also display grooved features, probably caused by wind flow patterns. The grooves are also influenced...
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  • expression 39 Stern, David P. (October 10, 2016). "Precession". NASA's Polar, Wind and Geotail Site. Retrieved April 25, 2022. "Glossary". Astronomical...
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    27-day rotation period). The solar wind is guided by the Sun's magnetic field and hence largely emanates from the polar regions of the Sun; the induced spiral...
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  • of the diffusing species are also coupled due to the electroneutrality Polar wind "Definition of AMBIPOLAR". Zweibel, Ellen G. (2015). "Chapter 11 Ambipolar...
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  • The Polar Express is a 2004 American animated Christmas adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Broyles Jr...
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  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru) is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The American translation...
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  • anti-aircraft vehicle from the Second World War North wind Polar easterlies South wind West wind Dongfeng (disambiguation) al-Buḫārī. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḫārī,...
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    Equator. The wind belts girdling the planet are organised into three cells in each hemisphere—the Hadley cell, the Ferrel cell, and the polar cell. Those...
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    ionospheric conduction need to be taken into account. At polar regions, directly linked to the solar wind, large-scale ionospheric anomalies can be successfully...
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    the Sun also produces streams of high energy particles known as the solar wind, and radiation that can harm life or alter its evolution. Under the protective...
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    anticyclone is a weather phenomenon defined as a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern...
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  • Polar ecology is the relationship between plants and animals in a polar environment. Polar environments are in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Arctic...
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  • of the Andes, in Argentina. The Zonda is a dry wind (often carrying dust) which comes from the polar maritime air, warmed by descent from the crest,...
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    private homes. Earth sciences portal Geophysics portal Physics portal Polar wind Geomagnetic jerk Geomagnetic latitude Magnetic field of Mars Magnetotellurics...
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    cold-core polar cyclones and extratropical cyclones which lie on the synoptic scale. Warm-core cyclones such as tropical cyclones, mesocyclones, and polar lows...
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