Polarity Of Temperature Essay

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Temperature’s vary across the globe for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons is that there is a heat imbalance on Earth due to fact that the earth spins on an axis, however this axis is not vertical. If the earth’s axis was vertical we would not experience any of the changing seasons that we do today. Instead we would all have equal lengths of day and night no matter which hemisphere you’re in because heat from the sun would be equally distributed all over the world even at the Poles and at The Equator.
The Earth’s axis is tilted approximately 23 degrees from the vertical position. Due to this tilt , different hemispheres receive direct heat at different times of the year because the direction of direct solar energy depends on the
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Winds and Ocean currents help the Earth do this due to the reason that air and water are kinetic and they are therefore able to transfer heat energy all around the world.
Cold ocean currents are found around the polar regions and move in the direction of Equatorial regions where there are high temperatures to stabilise those temperatures. Warm ocean currents are found around the Equatorial regions and move towards the Polar regions where the temperatures are low to stabilise those
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The winds are deflected and this deflection is the Coriolis force.
To fully understand the wind we use the Tricellular model which fully describes the mobility of air around the world. It also tells us where cyclonic activity would be found with is at the Polar front , due to the fact that that is where air rises over the polar front and then the cold polar easterly winds meet the warm westerly winds thus resulting in Mid-latitude cyclones.
The tricellular model also shows us where frontal rainfall occurs. Frontal rainfall occurs when cold air meets warm air and the warm air is forced above the cold air , then it cools and condenses resulting in

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