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    What do you call the area near the equator where there is no wind?

    Question #37213. Asked by mochyn. (Aug 06 03 5:07 PM)


    Siskin

    		The doldrums.

    Aug 06 03, 5:51 PM
    leukaphea

    		Also known as the Horse Latitudes

    Aug 08 03, 12:02 AM
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    		According to http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmartin/Oceanography/Physical_Oceanography.html there is a difference between them: -
    Doldrums - zone of no wind at equator, zone of intense rain (rising air)
    Horse latitudes - zone of no wind about 30 degrees north and south of the Equator, no rain (sinking air)



    Aug 08 03, 1:43 AM

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