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| == Walker circulation ==
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| <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A [[direct cell]] oriented along the [[equator]]; originally used by Bjerknes (1969) to refer to the cell induced by the contrast between the warm waters of the western Pacific and the cooler waters of the eastern Pacific.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Variability in this cell is associated with the [[Southern Oscillation]]. The term is now sometimes used to refer to the entire chain of east–west equatorial circulation cells that stretches around the globe.</div><br/> </div><div class="reference">Bjerknes, J. 1969. Tellus. 18. 820–829. </div><br/>
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