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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
Volume 141, Issue 690, Pages 1957-1967Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2477
Keywords
Coriolis effect; inertia oscillations; dynamic meteorology; conceptual models
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The difference between the derivations of the Coriolis effect on a rotating turntable and on the rotating Earth is discussed. In the latter case a real force, the component of the earth's gravitational attraction, non-parallel to the local vertical, plays a central role by balancing the centrifugal force. That a real force is involved leaves open, not only the question on the inertial nature of the inertial oscillations', but also the way we tend to physically conceptualize the terrestrial Coriolis effect.
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