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Inside the Jet Stream
Giving Rise to the Jet Stream
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The circulation of air from the tropics toward the poles results in a slow-moving, upper-atmosphere wind, but this wind moves from south to north (or north to south in the Southern Hemisphere). The jet stream, on the other hand, is a fast-moving band of air that travels from west to east.

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