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• Alaska Science Forum: The Jet Stream - Article by Larry Gedney about how the failure of a bombing mission on Tokyo in 1944 led to an understanding of the fluid dynamics of the upper atmosphere.
• CRWS: Jet Stream Analyses and Forecasts - Contains maps of where the jet stream is now, and where forecasters think it will be in the future.
• Generation of the African Easterly Jet and Its Role in Determining West African Precipitation - Paper by Kerry H. Cook published by the American Meteorological Society.
• Jet Stream - Diagram showing how a current of rapidly moving air is formed between two masses of air at different temperatures.
• National Weather Service: JetStream - Online resource for learning about the jet stream and global air circulation patterns.
• Ooishi's Observation Viewed in the Context of Jet Stream Discovery - Article by John M Lewis outlining Ooishi's upper-air observations dating back to 1926 and the history of the discovery of the jet stream.
• Paths of Polar and Subtropical Jet Streams - Provides diagrams showing the generalized locations of the polar and subtropical jet streams in the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere in January and July.
• The Tropics May Be Expanding - Atmospheric temperature measurements by U.S. weather satellites indicate Earth's hot, tropical zone has expanded farther from the equator since 1979 because the subtropical jets have been pushed toward the Poles.
• Wikipedia: Jet Stream - Encyclopedia article on these fast flowing, narrow currents of air found between the troposphere and the stratosphere.

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