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Is there any type of pressure belts other than wind?

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Is there any type of pressure belts other than wind?

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I am not sure what you mean by “pressure belt” but the equator is very warm and warm air rises. It creates a belt of low pressure around the earth. This is where you find the rain forests. The poles are very cold, denser air sinks and creates two regions of high pressures. The air sinks at the poles could fill the low pressures of the equator if it wasn’t for the earth rotation and the Coriolis effect. Because the air that rises at the equator turns to the right in the northern hemisphere and comes down at roughly latitude 30 north and south, to form two belts of high pressure. Those are where we find most of the deserts on earth. Last, between the polar cold air and the mild sub-tropical air, a front is forming where warm air climbs over cold one. This, again, creates two belts of low pressures as rising air decreases the pressure. Because of that, the air goes up and down and clockwise around a high pressure, counter-clockwise around a low one, and the opposite in the southern hemisp

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