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| device used for measuring air pressure |
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| the pressure exerted by the weight of air above |
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| fast-moving rivers of air near the tropopause that travel between 120 and 240 kilometers per hour in a west-to-east direction |
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| two belts of winds that blow almost constantly from easterly directions |
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| make up the dominant west-to-east motion of the atmosphere |
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| winds that blow from the polar high toward subpolar low |
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| the interaction of these warm and cool air masses produces the stormy belt in the middle lattitudes |
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| seasonal changes in wind direction |
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| commonly used to measure wind speed |
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