Coriolis effect - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

acceleration - ️️the change in speed and/or direction experienced by an object; describes how the object is moving altitude correction - ️️something applied to altering pressure to be at sea level for regions above sea level anticyclones - ️️areas of high pressure; fair weather anticyclonic - ️️the air flow is clockwise around high pressure (northern hemisphere) clockwise - ️️a person on the South Pole would spin____ condensation - ️️returning>leaving ...

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