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Ucar: A Global Look at Moving Air: Atmospheric Circulation ArticleUcar: A Global Look at Moving Air: Atmospheric Circulation Article
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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3rd - 8th
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Ucar: A Global Look at Moving Air: Atmospheric Circulation

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Even with disruptions like weather fronts and storms, there is a consistent pattern to how air moves around our planet's atmosphere. This pattern, called atmospheric circulation, is caused because the Sun heats the Earth more at the equator than at the poles. It's also affected by the spin of the Earth.

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convection

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air flow, atmosphere, air movements

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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