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How does global atmospheric air circulation created.
How the earth rotation on its axis affect the global air motion?
Where the air starts its motion and where it ends?

2007-01-13 22:34:05 · 4 answers · asked by alex 2 in Science & Mathematics Weather

4 answers

The earth's rotation causes the air to turn to the right in the northern hemisphere and to turn to the left in the southern hemisphere. This tendency is referred to as the Coriolis force or coriolis accelerations. Latitudinal temperature differences between the equator and poles are the cause of differences in air pressure and density which in turn cause winds but it is the coriolis force due to the earth's rotation that most affect circulation.

2007-01-14 00:40:32 · answer #1 · answered by 1ofSelby's 6 · 2 0

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2016-05-23 23:48:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Global Air Circulation

2016-10-02 00:02:16 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

The Earth's atmosphere is put into motion because of the differential heating of the Earth surface.
Tropics receive more heat than the poles because:
Sun's rays are more perpendicular to the Earth and the cross-sectional area of Sun's rays striking the earth's surface is smaller at the equator. Therefore, the heating per square area is greater at the equator than at the poles.
The thickness of the atmosphere that the Sun's rays must past through is greater at the poles than at the equator. Therefore, more of the radiation is attenuated at the poles than at the equator.

2007-01-13 22:43:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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