人们对事物本质和规律的认识是一个不断继承、发展并逐渐接近真理的过程。三圈环流虽然现在已成为自然地理的基础知识之一,但在地理学史上,从发现到对其认识较为清楚却经历了几百年的时间。由于行星风系在大洋中更明显,因此,人们对地球风带的全面了解与远洋航海史有着密切的联系。很早以前人们就发现,地球上某些地带的风 People’s understanding of the nature and law of things is a process of continuously inheriting, developing and gradually approaching the truth. Although the three circulations have now become one of the basic knowledge of natural geography, in the history of geography, from discovery to know more clearly it has experienced hundreds of years. As planetary winds are more pronounced in the oceans, a complete understanding of the Earth’s windband is closely linked with the history of ocean navigation. Long ago people discovered the winds in some areas of the earth