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A thermally driven wind arising from differential heating between a land mass and the adjacent ocean that reverses its direction seasonally.
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Oscillation
In meteorology, oscillation is a shift in the position of high and low pressure systems, usually in the same place. These are often described using an index (often a single number that represents the distribution of temperature and pressure over a wide area, usually over the oceans, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, or Pacific Decadal Oscillation).
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