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Coriolis effect

Appears in 3 processs and 4 steps. Everything below is linked: open a process to see it in context.

Top processes

Jet streams, storm tracks, monsoons and tropical cyclones

2 steps

The equator-to-pole temperature contrast plus Earth's rotation make westerly jet streams near the tropopause (thermal wind)
Tropical cyclones form over ocean warmer than 26 C down to about 50 m, more than about 500 km from the equator, with low wind shear, a moist mid-troposphere and

Tropical atmospheric circulation: Hadley and Walker cells and ENSO

1 step

Surface trade winds blow back toward the equator, turned westward by the Coriolis effect, closing the Hadley cell and widening by about 2 to 4.5 degrees of lati

Wind-driven ocean circulation, upwelling, ocean heat uptake and sea level

1 step

Wind drags the surface layer and the Coriolis effect turns it, so the net Ekman transport is at right angles to the wind

Often found with

Heat 3 Ocean 2 Trade winds 1 Hadley cell 1 Jet stream 1 Atmosphere 1 Tropical cyclones 1 Water vapour 1 Wind 1 Seawater 1

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