Polar vortex
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polar-vortex-168-17705570
title:
Polar vortex
text:
A circumpolar vortex, or simply polar vortex, is a large region of cold, rotating air; polar vortices encircle both of Earth's polar regions. Polar vortices also exist on other rotating, low-obliquity planetary bodies. The term polar vortex can be used to describe two distinct phenomena; the stratospheric polar vortex, and the tropospheric polar vortex. The stratospheric and tropospheric polar vortices both rotate in the direction of the Earth's spin, but they are distinct phenomena that have di
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description:
Persistent cold-core low-pressure area that circles one of the poles
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_vortex
date created:
2005-01-29T01:09:29Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T03:57:42Z
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