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African Easterly Jet
The African easterly jet is a region of the lower troposphere over West Africa where the seasonal mean wind speed is maximum and easterly. The jet develops because heating of the West African land mass during the Northern Hemisphere summer creates a surface temperature and moisture gradient from the Gulf of Guinea and the Sahara, and the atmosphere responds by generating vertical wind shear to maintain thermal wind balance.
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