A jet stream is a narrow band of strong wind, normally a horizontal wind high in the troposphere, whose position changes from day to day. The subtropical jet blows from the west near the poleward edge of the Hadley cell, usually between and of latitude at heights of . The polar-front jet blows from the west above the boundary between polar and subtropical air, between about and ; it is the fast core of the westerlies, steered by and steering the depressions and anticyclones of the mid-latitudes.
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什么是 Jet stream; subtropical and polar-front jets?
又称: jet stream · subtropical jet · polar-front jet