Weather Glossary
- Coriolis force
The Coriolis force is named after the French scientist Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis, who, in 1835, discovered that the earth's daily rotation on its axis exerted a force on all free-moving objects such as wind. In the Northern Hemisphere, the earth's rotation deflects the winds to the right and in the Southern Hemisphere, to the left.
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