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Which effect results when increased surface heating strengthens Hadley cell circulation?

A)More intense subtropical desertification
B)Weakening of the subtropical anticyclones
C)Equatorial rainfall belt stabilization
D)Polar jet stream position stabilization

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Stronger Hadley circulation leads to increased subsidence in subtropical regions, caused by adiabatic compression; this strengthens subtropical high-pressure systems and their associated desertification, because it inhibits cloud formation rather than causing the other patterns.

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