PRESENTATION
ON
JET
STREAMS
Supervised by
Bipul Roy
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and
Environment
Islamic university, Bangladesh
GROUP
Md Siam Sarker
MEMBERS
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No:2131018
Md Abdullah
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2131019
Sumaiya Tabassum
Tanni
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Fulguni
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2131045
Md Farhan
Tanvir
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2131049 Dept. of GE
5th batch
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What are these jet
streams?
How are they formed?
Where are they located?
How do they affect the overall
atmospheric circulation around the
whole globe?
JET STREAMS
Jet streams are fast moving winds that circulate high up in the atmosphere .
Polar cell
Fractures of jet streams:
Ferrel cell
They are fast moving winds.
They are located high in the Harley
atmosphere. cell
They flow from west to east.
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Existing through out the year
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Jet streams are fast moving
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winds that circulate high up
in the atmosphere. 01 JET
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The speed at with jet streams SAMMARY The jet streams flow at
flow vary between 129 and
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high speeds at the
225 kilometers per hour, and upper troposphere.
in some cases the speeds can They flow at the height
even reach up to 443 of 8-15 kilometers
kilometers per hour. above the surface of the
In general, the direction of
SAMMARY The speed at which jet
Earth.
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the jet streams is from streams flow is maximum at
West to East. the Centre and it reduces as
we move towards or approach
the ages.
There are two
different types of SAMMARY Permanent jet streams are those which
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jet streams: exist throughout the year while
Permanent jet temporary jet streams are formed in a
streams and specific location for a limited period of
There are two major SAMMARY Tropical easterly
permanent jet streams, one is jet streams and
Subtropical Westerly jet
streams and another one is
Polar front jet streams.
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are examples of
temporary jet
streams.
Jet streams are formed when
SAMMARY Jet streams are
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Geostrophic winds
warm air mass meets cold air which result from the
mass in the upper interplay of the
troposphere. Pressure gradient force
We saw two and
jet Coriolis
streamsforce.
form
This jet streams formed
because of interplay of
SAMMARY in the Northern hemisphere.
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The first one is called the
warm tropical air-mass
Subtropical westerly jet
and the relatively cold
streams. It is formed around
temperate air-mass.
This jet streams 30 degrees latitude at the
formed because of SAMMARY boundary of the Hadley and
The other one is called Polar front jet
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interplay of warm the Ferrel cells.
streams. It is formed around 60
temperate air- degrees latitude at the boundary of
mass and the the Ferrel and Polar cells.
