The trade winds are the persistent surface winds that blow from the subtropical highs towards the equatorial low, turned by the Coriolis force into north-easterlies in the Northern Hemisphere and south-easterlies in the Southern. The westerlies are the prevailing winds from the west of the mid-latitudes, between about and . Poleward of them blow the polar easterlies.
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什么是 Trade winds, westerlies?
又称: trade winds · westerlies