Understanding the Coriolis Effect
The Coriolis Effect Defined: What in the World is it?
The Coriolis effect causes circulation cells in the northern Hemisphere surface wind to deflect clockwise and to the right
Warm Air Rises and Cold Air Falls- Why?
The warm air rises because it is less dense. The cold air has a higher density and falls. This is because the temperature in the air is higher than the poles are.
What is the general pattern of wind currents on the globe? What is a convection current? Global circulation is driven by which two processes?
There are two types of wind currents. The first ,Horse Latitudes has a high atmospheric pressure and its surface has a subtropical high temperature. The Doldrums Horse Latitudes eases the equatorial areas where the surface wind of the two Hadley cells converge.
What is a Convection Current?
A Convection Current is caused by a hot material at the deepest
part of the mantle rising, cooling, sinking again and then heating, rising
and is repeated over.
Notes
Density:This is a physical property of matter. Each element and compound has a unique density associated with it. Density defined in a qualitative manner as the measure of the weight of the objects with a constant volume.
Pressure:This is an application of force by pressing, which causes stress.
Hadley Cells: This is where the air rises at the equator and loses moisture by rainfall caused by it's expanding and cooling.
Ferrel Cells: These are mid-circulation cells.The air is uneven by the heat and influence of the Coriolis Effect.
Polar Cells: This is when is the cold air has grown over the poles going to the equator at the surface goingtorwards the west .
Horse Latitudes: This is the area with a high atmospheric pressure and has a high surface subtropical high temperature.
Doldrums:This is a calm lequitorial area where the surface wind of the two Hadley cells converge.
The Coriolis effect causes circulation cells in the northern Hemisphere surface wind to deflect clockwise and to the right
Warm Air Rises and Cold Air Falls- Why?
The warm air rises because it is less dense. The cold air has a higher density and falls. This is because the temperature in the air is higher than the poles are.
What is the general pattern of wind currents on the globe? What is a convection current? Global circulation is driven by which two processes?
There are two types of wind currents. The first ,Horse Latitudes has a high atmospheric pressure and its surface has a subtropical high temperature. The Doldrums Horse Latitudes eases the equatorial areas where the surface wind of the two Hadley cells converge.
What is a Convection Current?
A Convection Current is caused by a hot material at the deepest
part of the mantle rising, cooling, sinking again and then heating, rising
and is repeated over.
Notes
Density:This is a physical property of matter. Each element and compound has a unique density associated with it. Density defined in a qualitative manner as the measure of the weight of the objects with a constant volume.
Pressure:This is an application of force by pressing, which causes stress.
Hadley Cells: This is where the air rises at the equator and loses moisture by rainfall caused by it's expanding and cooling.
Ferrel Cells: These are mid-circulation cells.The air is uneven by the heat and influence of the Coriolis Effect.
Polar Cells: This is when is the cold air has grown over the poles going to the equator at the surface goingtorwards the west .
Horse Latitudes: This is the area with a high atmospheric pressure and has a high surface subtropical high temperature.
Doldrums:This is a calm lequitorial area where the surface wind of the two Hadley cells converge.