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What is the effect of latitude on atmospheric pressure?

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Two Sharks” writes that, as the temperature increases, the pressure does too. That is true in e.g. the tires of your car but not in the atmosphere that is an open system. Rather the opposite, because, warmer air is less dense and rises. read more

But the Coriolis effect that diverts any large fluid body to the right-hand side, in the northern hemisphere, creates two belts of high pressure at roughly the latitudes 30 N and 30 S. That is called, the Hadley cell. read more

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