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Encyclopedia Britannica



TRADE WINDS

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 153 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
TRADE WINDS , the name given to the winds which blow from the tropical belts of high pressure towards the equatorial belt of low pressure, from the north-
east
  in the northern hemisphere and from the
south
 -
east
  in the southern. They are exceedingly
regular
 , especially over the oceans, where there is no disturbing influence from the
great
  land masses. They receive their name from this feature, the
term
  "
trade
  " being used in the otherwise obsolete sense of " direction " or " course " (cf. " tread "). The area of their greatest influence may be taken to extend from about 3 to 35 N., and from the
equator
  to 28 S., though these belts are actually somewhat narrower at any given season, as the whole
system
  of surface winds over the globe moves north and
south
  following the sun. The westerly winds prevalent in the belts respectively north of the northern tropical belt of high pressure, and south of the southern, are sometimes known as
anti
 -trades, their direction being opposite to that of the
trade
  winds.


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