I have understood that coriolis force causes an apparant deflection of motion due to the rotation of the earth. For the example of trade winds, wind blows from Egypt will be deflected and ends up somewhere near the west shore of africa instead of somewhere right below egypt. Using the same concept, westerlies wind blowing from the southern of usa should end up somewhere near the west shore of usa. But in fact, westerlies winds blow from south-west to north-east. Can anyone please please explain this? Thank you very much.
2007-02-19
19:40:38
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iamlonely
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