The Coriolis Effect and Geostrophic Motion

Compact explanation of Coriolis forces and rotating frames. Comments are well-done, too. What is not indicated or conveyed is why geostrophic flow causes fluid flow in rotating frames to have structure rather than diffuse uniformly. And, ironically, this “sorting out” produces “emergent structure” where students might expect there to be more chaos.

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