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Coriolis force

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Coriolis force

Apparent force that must be included if Newton's laws of motion are to be used in a rotating system. First described by Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis (1792–1843) in 1835, the force acts to the right of the direction of body motion for counterclockwise rotation and to the left for clockwise rotation. On Earth an object that moves along a north-south path, or longitudinal line, will be apparently deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. The deflection is related to the motion of the object, the motion of the Earth, and latitude. The Coriolis effect is important in meteorology and oceanography as well as ballistics; it also has great significance in astrophysics.
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Notice, especially from (2), that the geostrophic wind is the result of a balance between two forces, pressure gradient force (PGF) and Coriolis force (CF).
A primer on the ageostrophic wind by Market, Patrick S. / National Weather Digest
For example, the role of wind-driven changes includes a review of how local wind-driven currents along a coast can, via the action of the Coriolis force, change coastal sea level, but does not describe how some wind-driven effects can propagate along continental boundaries as coastally trapped waves.
Changing Sea Levels by Garrett, Chris / Geoscience Canada
The coriolis force generates a torque measuring proportional to the mass flow, which is transmitted to a strain gage load cell.
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