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The obstructive Coriolis force (Coriolis Part 4)
Author(s) -
Persson Anders
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/j.1477-8696.2001.tb06571.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , citation , ping (video games) , physics , library science , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , computer security
Starting in this issue Weather will further explore the consequences of the Coriolis force for atmospheric and oceanic processes over five instalments spread out into 2002. The articles follow on from the three ‘Back to basics’ articles by Anders Persson published in 2000. These sparked off a lot of debate, some of which you will have seen in the letters pages and more in the recent report on the Weather questionnaire. The aim of these further articles is to describe some commonly encountered dynamical features of the atmosphere and ocean in which the Coriolis force plays a significant role: inertial motion, geostrophic winds, the subtropical jet, the Ekman spiral in the oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers, and the night-time low-level jet. The limited mathematics in these are mostly contained in footnotes, and those without formal training can easily skip this without serious loss. I found the articles stimulating and thought-provokmg. I hope you will do so too. Grant Bigg