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Re: The Weather



At 10:03 AM 5/15/00 -0400, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
What is the mechanism driving the jet stream?

1) I'm not entirely sure.

2) There is something called _thermal gradient wind_
http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/atmo.html#sec_thermal_gradient_wind
which probably explains at least part of it.

Cheers --- jsd