Saturday, January 14, 2012

[dmgirlrz] Contradictory Coriolis

Stand at a mid-latitude point on earth and sun passes over you from east to west.

Stand at a mid-latitude point on earth and weather patterns pass over you from west to east.  It's definitely not the case that the atmosphere remains relatively still and the earth frictionlessly slides under it.

The Coriolis effect is invoked to explain both scenarios, but they are opposite directions.

Jet stream

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