ELI5 Coriolis Effect. I don’t understand what it does
In: Physics
Imagine you and your 2 best friends walking shoulder to shoulder you can walk in a straight line and stay shoulder to shoulder but what happens when you need to turn left? In order to stay next to each other your friend on the left will have to slow down and your friend on the right will have to speed up.
The Coriolis effect is this but with the earths atmosphere the air at the equator moves much faster (friend on the right)than the air at the north or south poll (friend on the left) this have much larger effects on wind patterns that I will let someone else explain
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