how is heat fluxed polewards in mid latitudes?
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Hadley circulation of the atmosphere and ocean currents.
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The Earth is tilted at an angle of about twenty three and a half degrees.  This is the reason why North and Magnetic poles are not at the same place.  \n\nAnyway, in the Northern winter, the North Pole is angled away from the Sun, with the South Pole therefore being angled towards the Sun.  The result is 24 hours night in the north, 24 hours day light in the south.  This is the southern summer.\nNow remember that the Earth maintains this angle throughout its orbit.\nSix months later, the Earth is on the other side of its orbit around the Sun.  Still maintaining the same tilt, now the North Pole is receiving 24 hour day light, and the South Pole is in darkness.  Northern summer, southern winter.\n\nThe Arctic and Antarctic circles mark the limit of this 24 hour daylight, and the Tropic of Cancer (North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (South) mark the limits of the maximum travel of the Sun at it appears in the northern and southern skies.\n\nAt the Spring and Autumn exquinox, the Earth is such that the Poles are receiving equal amounts of sunlight.  Equinox means "equal night".  \n\nI down know any particular websites but try the NOAA and BBC weather sites.\n\nADDITION: To Glenn Blaylock.  Thank you very much for the correction.  I'll read up on my error.
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It would point towards the magnetic pole which is somewhat south of the geographical North Pole. The 2005 location of the magnetic north pole is 79.74°N and 71.78°W
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In high-energy physics, medical treatments, and space detections, quadrupole field distributions and sextupole field distributions are often required over a large spherical volume. Traditionally, these fields can be generated with cylindrical magnets. In comparison with cylindrical magnets, the spherical magnets have the advantages of smaller values of inductances, lower energy storage, and less magnetic flux leakage. The basic method derives from the target field approach that has been used to solve many of the inverse electromagnetic problems. \n\nCalculation:\n\nThe geomagnetic poles or geocentric dipole, can be computed from the first three Gauss coefficients from a main field model, such as the WMM or IGRF. Based on the current WMM model, the 2005 location of the geomagnetic north pole is 79.74°N and 71.78°W and the geomagnetic south pole is 79.74°S and 108.22°E. \n\nThe magnetic poles or dip pole are computed from all the Gauss coefficients using an iterative method. Based on the current WMM model, the 2005 location of the north magnetic pole is 83.21°N and 118.32°W and the south magnetic pole is 64.53°S and 137.86°E.\n\nThe location of the center of the eccentric dipole, sometimes known as the magnetic center, computed using the first eight Gauss coefficients for 2005.0, is at approximately (r, φ´, λ) = (552 km, 22.2°N, 141.6°E). \n\nThe task of locating the principal magnetic pole by instrument is difficult for many reasons; the large area over which the dip or inclination (I) is nearly 90 degrees, the pole areas are not fixed points, but move tens to hundreds of kilometers because of daily variations and magnetic storms, and finally, the polar areas are relatively inaccessible to survey crews (map of North and South polar wander - courtesy of Dr. John Quinn, U.S. Geological Survey retired). The Geological Survey of Canada keeps track of the North Magnetic Pole, which is slowly drifting across the Canadian Arctic, by periodically carrying out magnetic surveys to redetermine the Pole's location. The most recent survey, completed in May, 2001, determined an updated position for the Pole and established that it is moving approximately northwest at 40 km per year.
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mainly above the north and south poles
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From USA Today:\n\n"Q: Why does most of our weather come from the west if the Earth is rotating the opposite way?\n\nA: When looking down at the North Pole, the Earth spins counterclockwise around its axis. A point on the equator travels at about 1,100 mph, while a point directly at the poles does not move at all. An apparent force called the Coriolis force results from this difference in speeds, deflecting objects to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. The Coriolis force, combined with solar heating patterns across the Earth, create distinctive wind patterns that drive weather systems.\n\nOne prevailing surface wind pattern that results is located in the mid-latitudes, between 30 and 60° North. Solar heating alone, without the Earth's rotation, would produce prevailing southerly winds. The Coriolis force, however, deflects these winds to the right, creating prevailing winds out of the west and southwest (the westerlies). \n\nSolar heating patterns in the tropics, from the equator to about 30° North, combined with the Coriolis force, produce weak prevailing winds out of the east (the easterlies). Southern regions of the USA, including Florida, are affected by the westerlies at times and the easterlies at others."\n\nHope this helps explain it. Check the first link for other weather questions and second link to see a full explanation of the consequences of rotation on weather.
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As time goes by, spring turns to summer, summer turns to autumn, autumn turns to winter and eventually winter becomes spring again. The years roll by and the Earth keeps spinning around the Sun.\nWhy, though, do these different seasons of the year occur? The simple answer is that it's due to the Earth being tilted at an angle of about 23.5° and to its rotation around the Sun.\n\nThere are a number of imaginary lines that circle the Earth perpendicular to its axis.\n\nThe Equator runs around the centre of the Earth splitting it equally north and south.\n\nThe Tropic of Cancer encircles the Earth 23.5° north of the Equator. During the seasons, this is the furthest point north that the sun can appear to travel.\nThe Tropic of Capricorn encircles the Earth 23.5° south of the Equator. It is the furthest point that the sun appears to travel south.\nThe Arctic Circle is 23.5° from the North Pole. When the North Pole is pointing away from the sun, all areas inside this circle stay in perpetual darkness.\nThe Antarctic circle is 23.5° from the South Pole. Again it represents an area that the sun never reaches during certain times of the year.\n\nSeasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Niño/ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.
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In geography, temperate latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. The changes in these regions between summer and winter are generally subtle, warm or cool, rather than extreme, burning hot or freezing cold. However, a temperate climate can have very unpredictable weather. One day it may be sunny, the next it may be raining, and after that it may be cloudy. These erratic weather patterns occur in summer as well as winter.\n\nThe north temperate zone extends from the Tropic of Cancer at about 23.5 degrees north latitude to the Arctic Circle at about 66.5 degrees north latitude. The south temperate zone extends from the Tropic of Capricorn at about 23.5 degrees south latitude to the Antarctic Circle at about 66.5 degrees south latitude.\n\nWithin these borders there are many individual climate types, which are generally grouped into two categories: continental and maritime.\n\nThe maritime climate is clearly affected by the oceans, which help to sustain somewhat stable temperatures throughout the year. In the temperate zones, the prevailing winds are to the west, the western edge of temperate continents most commonly experience this maritime climate. Such regions include Western Europe, especially the UK, and western North America at latitudes between 40° and 60° north (65°N in Europe).\n\nThe continental climate is usually situated inland, with warmer summers and colder winters. The large land mass increases its effects on heat reception and loss. In North America, the Rocky Mountains act as a climate barrier to the maritime air blowing from the west, creating a continental climate to the east. In Europe, the maritime climate is able to stabilize temperatures further inland, because the major mountain range - the Alps - is oriented east-west.
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north and south poles
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I would say on the eastern side.  You're still going to be experiencing the most Positive Vorticity on that side.  Though the clouds should be mostly mid and high level clouds.  \n\nAs for formation:\n\nFrom the American Meterological Society glossary:\nA sequence of events by which a warm high or cold low, originally within the westerlies, becomes displaced either poleward (cut-off high) or equatorward (cut-off low) out of the westerly current. \nThis process is evident at very high levels in the atmosphere; it frequently produces, or is part of the production of, a blocking situation.
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No, the magnetic poles are off from the geographic poles by several miles (perhaps even hundreds of miles, I don't recall exactly how much).
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The tilt of the earths axis is what gives the northern and southern hemisphere different seasons. when the northern hemisphere is inclined towards the sun its summer here (June), when the southern hemisphere is inclined towards the sun its winter here (Dec). In between these times its hottest at the equator!\n\nThe tilt of the earths axis changes over geological time though, so the seasons will inevitably change.
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Hot air rises at the equator and moves north.  As it cools, it sinks in the lower mid-latitudes.  Air moves back toward the equator.  This is called the Hadley cell.  Google it for more info.  Its a very general approximation of air movement.  Note that it is influenced by the Coriolis Effect if you look at it in 3 dimensions.\n\nCheck this out:\n\nhttp://www.newmediastudio.org/DataDiscovery/Hurr_ED_Center/Easterly_Waves/Trade_Winds/Trade_Winds.html
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It's due to the jetstream which is located at about 250 mb which is approximately 12km above the surface (give or take).\nAnyway the jet stream does circle the globe (not always continuously) flowing from west to east (in the northern hemisphere).  Our weather systems are steered by the upper level winds associated with the jet stream.  Keep in mind though, the jet stream does have troughs and ridges which causes weather systems to move north or south, but the general flow is from west to east.\n\n-For those who say it's the rotation of the Earth... it is in a way because it's the unequal heating of the earth and the rotation of the earth that creates the jet stream.  But it really is upper level winds which steer weather systems.
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Yes, 111 kilometers or 69 miles per degree. \nFor a latitude of x degrees, the distance is 111 times cos (x).
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Even if the earth wasn't tilted at all, it would still be colder at the poles and hotter at the equator.  Imagine that you want to find a place to lay down solar power panels on the ground.  You'll get more solar energy if you picked a spot at the equator than at the poles, because one gets the maximum solar energy influx when the sun is directly overhead, and minimum when it's at the horizon.  Having the earth tilted merely exaggerates this effect, and causes seasonal changes in solar influx for different parts of the world, but is not the primary cause of "too cold" and "too hot" being in some places.  The primary cause is that the earth is round, so that some places just get more solar energy than others.
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Latitude, altitude, prevailing winds.