Question

(i) What are 'horse latitudes'?
(ii) How is the subtropical high pressure belt formed?

Answer 1

• The area of subtropical high pressure is located between latitudes 25 degrees and 35 degrees north and south latitude. These high-pressure zones are called the horse-latitude.
  
• The meteorologists believe that these subtropical high-pressure cells are dynamically produced due to the rotation of the earth. These high-pressure cells are the key points in the distributional pattern of air pressure over the globe.