Marine and continental hemispheres (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Marine and continental hemispheres

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As Earth gets closer to the sun in its elliptical orbit, the continent-dominated hemisphere heats up more than the ocean -dominated hemisphere, generating trade winds that affect the cold tongue and likely the El Niño/La Niña cycle that determines whether California gets rain or drought.

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John Chiang, UC Berkeley

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