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IN the neighbourhood of the equator, the height of the tropopause is about 17 gkm. and at latitude 70° N. about 10 gkm. The rate at which the height of the tropopause changes with latitude is, however, not uniform, the change being very rapid between 45° and 20° in winter, and between 50° and 30° in summer. The ring of cold air which collects near the tropopause over tropical latitudes will tend to spread out with a slight downward component towards higher latitudes. To compensate this movement, we may expect that there will be at lower levels a movement towards lower latitudes.
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RAMANATHAN, K., RAMAKRISHNAN, K. Distortion of the Tropopause due to Meridional Movements in the Sub-Stratosphere. Nature 132, 932 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132932a0
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