polar easterlies

Cold heavy air flows south from the north pole and is bent west, forming the polar easterlies.

The southern polar easterlies are mostly over Antarctica.

From pole to equator, they are the polar easterlies, the westerlies, and the trade winds.

Unlike the westerlies in the middle latitudes, the polar easterlies are often weak and irregular.

All of this unequal heat, rushing air and spinning Earth combine to form global currents such as the polar easterlies.

Air flows outwards from the poles to create the polar easterlies in the arctic and antarctic areas.

The winds over Antarctica are called the polar easterlies where winds blow from the east to the west.

Finally near the poles are the polar highs where the polar easterlies originate.

Towards the poles, the winds move mainly in westerly direction (polar easterlies, 'screaming sixties').

Polar Front: Between the polar easterlies and the westerlies is the polar front.

These prevailing winds blow from the polar easterlies are one of the five primary wind zones, known as wind belts, that make up our atmosphere's circulatory system.

P1010 Polar easterlies Diffuse belt of low-level easterly winds located on the poleward side of the subpolar low-pressure belt.

This system cycles the cool polar easterlies with the polar front westerlies and in doing so creates the cold climate but also allows for a moderate amount of precipitation in the region.

Polar Easterlies: At about the latitude of Norway and northward (60-90 degrees), the Polar easterlies blow irregularly from the east and north.

Alternating belts of high pressure and low pressure develop along the equator, the two tropics, the Arctic and Antarctic circles, and the two polar regions, giving rise to the trade winds, the westerlies, and the polar easterlies.

The polar easterlies (also Polar Hadley cells) are the dry, cold prevailing winds that blow from the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the north and south poles towards low-pressure areas within the Westerlies at high latitudes.

When the air reaches the polar areas, it has cooled considerably, and descends as a cold, dry high-pressure area, moving away from the pole along the surface but veering westward as a result of the Coriolis effect to produce the Polar easterlies.

The southern hemisphere, being more uniform than the north, had winds that followed even more clearly the physics of air over a rotating sphere: southeast trades from the equator to latitude thirty; prevailing westerlies from latitude thirty down to latitude sixty; polar easterlies from there to the pole.