charcteristics of Trade wind
The characteristics of trade wind are as follows:- a)they blow over nearly half of the globe hence their extent of activity is large; b)they originate at low latitudes on the margins of the sub-tropical high pressure cells; c)they possess constancy of direction & speed(about 7m/sec.); d)they are strongest during the winter half of the year & resembles westerlies in this regard; e)their seasonal extent varies considerably - from July to September they spread westwards into pacific while in Atlantic they extend to the coast of Brazil; f)they provide relatively stable & constant climate; g)they blow with a westerly component towards the equator from the north-east in Northern Hemisphere & from south-east in the Southern Hemisphere; h)the belt of trade wind lies between equatorial trough & sub-tropical highs; i)westerlies intervene between it's 2 belts especially over continents in the hemispheres enjoying summer; j)they are more pronounced o