As warm air rises and cold air sinks it forms three atmospheric circulation cells north of the equator and three to the south. These circulation cells move over land and sea to redistribute the ...

Atmospheric and oceanic circulation redistributes this energy ... This is called the three cell model and can be seen in the diagram below.

Figure 3: The spiral dust ... and we are confident that the model has captured the essential features of the observed cloud and the accompanying atmospheric circulation. The scale of the observed ...