How does the Coriolis Effect effect the globalk weather?
The Coriolis really plays a role in all global weather. Though its influence is more subtle than water or sunshine to our weather, without it local climates would be entirely different. It causes low pressure systems (cyclones) to rotate anti-clockwise (as viewed from above) in the northern hemisphere, and vice versa in the southern hemisphere. Conversely, high pressure rotates clockwise (N Hemi). If the earth rotated at a different speed (i.e. the length of a day was shorter or longer), the influence of the Coriolis would be much different. Imagine a day lasting only 7 hours! When would you get any sleep?? The Coriolis exerts a huge influence on monsoon seasons, for example, and if it was different, so would be the vegetation and animal species in Africa and India. All over the globe, for that matter. Tropical cyclones (hurricanes, etc.) would not exist without any Coriolis Effect, at least in any form familiar to us. That begs the question as to what sort of other mechanism the tropo
