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Atmospheric circulation patterns Energy from the Sun heats the entire Earth, but this heat is unevenly distributed across the Earth's surface. Equatorial and tropical regions receive far more solar energy than the midlatitudes and the polar regions. The tropics receive more heat radiation than they emit, while the polar regions emit more heat radiation than they receive. If no heat was transferred from the tropics to the polar regions, the tropics would get hotter and hotter while the poles would get colder and colder. This latitudinal heat imbalance drives the circulation of the atmosphere and oceans. Around 60% of the heat energy is redistributed around the planet by the atmospheric circulation and around 40% is redistributed by the ocean currents.
Atmospheric Circulation One way to transfer heat from the equator to the poles would be to have a single circulation cell where air moved from the tropics to the poles and back. This single-cell circulation model was first proposed by Hadley in the 1700’s. Air circulation around the globe would be simple (and the weather boring) if the Earth did not rotate and the rotation was not tilted relative to the Sun. Hypothetical circulation for a nonrotating Earth.
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