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Hairy ball theorem: references to applications

I'm looking for references to applications of the Hairy ball theorem. I already visited wikipedia and cited references, but I need a little more explanation in both meteorology and applications in ...
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Understanding Hom-bundle on vector bundles (Atiyah)

I am trying to make sense of the following statment (from Atiyah's K-theory book) Suppose $V,W$ are vector spaces, and that $E=X \times V, F=X \times W$ are the corresponding product bundles. Then ...
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Simple Continuity Question concerning Vector Bundles

I'm currently reading M. Atiyah's "K-Theory," and I'm a bit confused about the following part. Let $E = X \times V$ and $F = X\times W$, and let $\phi: E\to F$ be a vector bundle homomorphism. Why ...