Equatorial winds ripple down to Antarctica

ScienceDaily
Aug 17, 2020, 2:41 pm114 pts
A team has uncovered a critical connection between winds at Earth's equator and atmospheric waves 6,000 miles away at the South Pole. The team has found, for the first time, evidence of a Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) -- an atmospheric circulation pattern that originates at the equator -- at McMurdo,…

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