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" The dotted arrows show the direction the trade winds would take if the earth's rotation did not deflect them to the left in the southern hemisphere and to the right in the northern. "
The Ecology of Sandy Shores - Page 17
by A.C. Brown, Anton McLachlan - 2010 - 392 pages
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North America: With an Especially Full Treatment of the United ..., Book 2

Ralph Stockman Tarr, Frank Morton McMurry - Geography - 1900 - 550 pages
...dotted arrows show the direction the trade winds would take if the earth's rotation did not deflect them to the left in the southern hemisphere and to the right in the northern. Ky deflection they are turned as indicated hy the other arrows. shone for millions of years, and will...
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Tarr and McMurry's Geographies: North America

Ralph Stockman Tarr - Geography - 1900 - 552 pages
...dotted arrows show the direction the trade winds would take if the earth's rotation did not deflect them to the left in the southern hemisphere and to the right in the northern. By deflection they are turned as indicated by the other arrows. WIND AND RAIN the equator in June,...
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Tarr and McMurry's Geographies: North America

Ralph Stockman Tarr - Geography - 1901 - 542 pages
...dotted arrows show the direction the trade winds would take if the earth's rotation did not deflect them to the left in the southern hemisphere and to the right in the northern. By deflection they are turned as indicated by the other arrows. the southern sphere, where they blow...
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Tarr and McMurry Geographies, Part 3

Ralph Stockman Tarr, Frank Morton McMurry - Geography - 1905 - 550 pages
...dotted arrows show the direction the trade winds would take if the earth's rotation did not deflect them to the left in the southern hemisphere and to the right in the northern. By deflection they are turned as indicated by the other arrows. of the different zones of heat, has...
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Hazard-Wise: Classroom Resources for Teachers on Natural Hazards and Disasters

Chris Dolan - 1996 - 119 pages
...deflected because of the rotation of the earth. This is known as the Coriolis Effect. • This deflection - to the left in the Southern Hemisphere and to the right in the Northern Hemisphere - causes winds to circulate around highs and lows. • In the Southern Hemisphere ciculation is clockwise...
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Oceanography And Marine Biology: Volume 35, Volume 35

R. N. Gibson, Margaret Barnes - Science - 1997 - 659 pages
...across a distance of one Rossby radius, and rotation causes a response turning the direction of motion to the left in the southern hemisphere (and to the right in the northern hemisphere); consequently the process is markedly different from the non-rotating case. In the former case, Coriolis...
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Wind Generated Ocean Waves

I.R. Young - Science - 1999 - 307 pages
...symmetric flow and rotating the maximum to an angle of 70° to the direction of the cyclone forward motion (to the left in the southern hemisphere and to the right in the northern hemisphere). These modifications are consistent with the results of Shea and Gray (1973) and Shapiro (1983). Naturally,...
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A Citizen's Guide to Ecology

Lawrence B. Slobodkin - Science - 2003 - 256 pages
...called the Coriolis force.* It matters very much for ocean surface currents, turning surface currents to the left in the Southern Hemisphere and to the right in the Northern Hemisphere. The circulation pattern of the oceans is driven by the major surface winds and by the fact that the...
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Climate Change: A Natural Hazard

William Kininmonth - Nature - 2004 - 220 pages
...surface it sets up a drift current. However the drift current flows across the direction of the wind, to the left in the southern hemisphere and to the right in the northern hemisphere. The turning of the drift current is related to the rotation of the earth and is known as Ekman turning....
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Planet Geography

Stephen Codrington - Environmental geography - 2005 - 781 pages
...figure 14.16. The Coriolis force is the reason that the winds shown in figure 14.12 are seen to divert to the left in the southern hemisphere and to the right in the northern hemisphere. Air masses form over any continental land mass and any large sea or ocean. An air mass is a large body...
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