Because of that coriolus effect, you have high atmosphere winds travelling from west to east. When they descend, they come back down from a east to west. And those form the trade winds. In this a giant cell that's called the hadley cell, which is between the equator and lake ouset, about 30 degrees north latitude. That's rigt one. There's two with those, yes. The poles have their cells because they're so cold that any difference in temperature is like a radical difference in temperature. So they have their own convection currents that operate at the poles as well. This part is really cool, and it makes perfect sense. You know,
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