Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
The circulation within the tropics consists of two cells. Air blows in towards the low-
pressure belt of the equator
Plate 6.1
The characteristic cloud spiral around a mid-
latitude cyclone centred to the north-west of Scotland. Image
taken in the infra-red waveband on 29 October 2000 at 15.06
GMT. The cloud developing to the south-west of Britain
indicated a low-pressure system which gave the storm
referred to in the box on p. 131
Image: courtesy of the NERC Sateliite Station, University of
Dundee.
