Coriolis force is best explained with a spherical shape for the earth. You need the constant movement towards equilibrium to create weather disturbances with rotation and heat aiding in their development.
Coriolis force is best explained with a spherical shape for the earth
I disagree - especially if the world isn’t spherical! Coriolis is a pseudoforce - an illusion caused by frame of reference. Any actual force would be due to earths supposed rotation - not its shape.
You need the constant movement towards equilibrium to create weather disturbances with rotation and heat aiding in their development.
You don’t think the sun and its motion are responsible for that heat and rotational motion/direction?
Explanations are arbitrary and typically contrived. I don’t put too much stock in them as a result.
But for the sake of discussion, if the sun’s rotation (the path it travels in a day; not axial) caused storm vortices in one direction within the equator - would it not be reasonable to expect an opposite direction to the vortex spin on the outside of that rotation? Just like eddies in water?
What makes you say that? I don’t see any reason to assume the weather depends on the shape of the world.
Coriolis force is best explained with a spherical shape for the earth. You need the constant movement towards equilibrium to create weather disturbances with rotation and heat aiding in their development.
I disagree - especially if the world isn’t spherical! Coriolis is a pseudoforce - an illusion caused by frame of reference. Any actual force would be due to earths supposed rotation - not its shape.
You don’t think the sun and its motion are responsible for that heat and rotational motion/direction?
How do you explain the directional differences in rotation of weather systems between hemispheres?
Explanations are arbitrary and typically contrived. I don’t put too much stock in them as a result.
But for the sake of discussion, if the sun’s rotation (the path it travels in a day; not axial) caused storm vortices in one direction within the equator - would it not be reasonable to expect an opposite direction to the vortex spin on the outside of that rotation? Just like eddies in water?