5/28/2023 0 Comments World map globe view 3d![]() ![]() ![]() In meteorology, they act as the steering flow for tropical storms that form over the Atlantic, Pacific, and southern Indian oceans and make landfall in North America, Southeast Asia, and Madagascar and East Africa. They enabled colonial expansion into the Americas, and trade routes to become established across the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Trade winds have been used by captains of sailing ships to cross the world's oceans for centuries. The trade winds blow mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere, strengthening during the winter and when the Arctic oscillation is in its warm phase. The trade winds or easterlies are the permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region. The westerlies (blue arrows) and trade winds (yellow and brown arrows) ![]()
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