Every year, the clockwise circulation around the subtropical high helps to:

A) transport 40 million tons of dust from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rainforest.
B) deliver 20 million tons of carbon dioxide generated in Africa into the air above North America.
C) speed ozone depletion by lifting CFCs into the stratosphere.
D) lead hurricanes eastward across the Atlantic.


A

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