4.3 Earth's trade winds driven by the solar wind
The H+ of the solar wind loses its velocity as it collides with molecules in the upper atmosphere.
The density of hydrogen atoms peaks around altitude of 90 km, except when there is an ozone layer with a peak density around 25 km in the sky and a huge magnetic storm strikes.
The H+ of the solar wind rarely reaches the ground.
However, it gives the atmosphere the momentum that the H+ of the solar wind had when it collided with molecules and atoms in the atmosphere.
The atmosphere also moves along with the rotation of the earth, and its speed is about the speed of a jet airliner near the equator.
Therefore, the solar wind that passes by grazing the side of the Earth accelerates in the east and slows down in the west, so it turns the Earth's weather counterclockwise.
The solar wind has rotational content due to the rotation of the Sun. When the solar wind hits around the equator area in the daytime hemisphere of the Earth,
it drives the trade wind in the direction of clockwise rotation.
Wwesterly winds and trade winds orbiting the Earth are driven by the H+ of the solar windAs shown in Fig.11.
Fig.11, Trade winds orbiting the Earth are driven by the H+ of the solar wind.
4.4 Comparison of atmospheric motion orbiting the equatorial belt of the planet
The solar wind has a counterclockwise rotating component that, when colliding head-on, drives the planet's equator atmosphere clockwise. As shown in Figure 12, planets whose planets are separated from the Sun will have less effect on the rotating component of the solar wind that drives the trade winds.
Fig.12 Effect of the rotating component of the solar wind driving the east-west
flow of the atmosphere near the equator of the planet decreases as the
planet moves away from the Sun.
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