Coriolis force in geophysics: an elementary introduction and examples

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/21/4/310zbMATH Open1037.86001arXivphysics/0005028OpenAlexW2040051720MaRDI QIDQ4433290FDOQ4433290

Authors: F. Vandenbrouck, Ludovic Berthier, F. Gheusi 

Publication date: 2000

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how Geophysics may illustrate and thus improve classical Mechanics lectures concerning the study of Coriolis force effects. We are then interested in atmospheric as well as oceanic phenomena we are familiar with, and are for that reason of pedagogical and practical interest. Our aim is to model them in a very simple way to bring out the physical phenomena that are involved.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0005028

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zbMATH Keywords

Rossby wavescyclonesKelvin wavesjet streamswind-driven circulationanticyclones

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-01) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to geophysics (86-01)

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