How does wind belts of high and low pressure affect the climate of a certain place?
Wind blows from high to low pressure regions, although airflow is deflected by the Coriolis force as a result of the Earth’s rotation, and tends to follow more east-west trends rather than north-south trends. Air movement at or near the equator is light. At sea the region became known to sailors as the Doldrums. Air from the subtropical zones in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres converges here in a zone called the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). These low latitude wind belts became known as the Northeast and Southeast Trades, which merchant ships used to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to the New World. In the Indian Ocean, Northeast Trade winds blow throughout the winter months. During the Northern Hemisphere summer however, the ITCZ is shifted well to the north of the equator, when the midday Sun is overhead at the Tropic of Cancer at latitude 23.5° north. The Southeast Trade winds now cross the equator, and are deflected to the right by the Coriolis force, forming t
