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CALM CANCER [2 records]

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Record 1 2002-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
  • Mathematical Geography
CONT

European sailors had been traveling across the Atlantic and around Africa for more than two centuries, and they recognized a general latitudinal pattern : light and variable winds, with daily thunderstorms, near the equator--the "doldrums"; prevailing easterly winds near the tropics--the "trade winds"; prevailing westerly winds in the mid-latitudes; and between the belts of easterlies and westerlies a zone of usually clear skies and calm air, the so-called "horse latitudes" where a ship could be stuck for weeks at a time in the calms of Cancer or Capricorn.

OBS

Horse latitudes ... The belt in the Northern Hemisphere is sometimes called the "calms of Cancer" and that in the Southern Hemisphere the "calms of Capricorn."

OBS

calms of Cancer : term rarely used in the singular(calm of Cancer).

Key term(s)
  • calm of Cancer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
  • Géographie mathématique
DEF

Zone d'air calme située près du tropique du Cancer, au centre des zones subtropicales de haute pression (30 degrés nord).

OBS

calmes du cancer : terme inusité au singulier (calme du Cancer).

Key term(s)
  • calme du Cancer

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
  • Mathematical Geography
CONT

European sailors had been traveling across the Atlantic and around Africa for more than two centuries, and they recognized a general latitudinal pattern : light and variable winds, with daily thunderstorms, near the equator--the "doldrums"; prevailing easterly winds near the tropics--the "trade winds"; prevailing westerly winds in the mid-latitudes; and between the belts of easterlies and westerlies a zone of usually clear skies and calm air, the so-called "horse latitudes" where a ship could be stuck for weeks at a time in the calms of Cancer or Capricorn.

OBS

Horse latitudes ... The belt in the Northern Hemisphere is sometimes called the "calms of Cancer" and that in the Southern Hemisphere the "calms of Capricorn."

OBS

calms of Capricorn: term rarely used in the singular (calm of Capricorn).

Key term(s)
  • calm of Capricorn

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
  • Géographie mathématique
DEF

Zone d'air calme située près du tropique du Capricorne au centre des zones subtropicales de haute pression (30 degrés sud).

OBS

calmes du Capricorne : terme inusité au singulier (calme du Capricorne).

Key term(s)
  • calme du Capricorne

Spanish

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