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Old 27-05-2011, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by renormalised View Post
It's not so much a change in elevation that dictates where the deserts are, but that can have an effect (especially in localised orographically generated climate systems). It's the atmospheric circulation patterns which are present that dictate where they are (plus some other factors).
Hi Carl,

Thanks for taking the time with another informative and interesting reply.

You touched on briefly what they were, but I had to Google "Hadley cell" and interested
readers can find an enlightening Wikipedia article here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell

Thanks again Carl.
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