Ferrel's law, named after American meteorologist W. Ferrel (1817–1891), is the rule that air or water moving horizontally in the Northern Hemisphere is deflected or pushed to the right of its line of motion while air or water moving...

Coriolis force is not a true force at all; instead it is an apparent force. It manifests itself when the observer is in a rotating reference frame, such as the Earth, but the frame is assumed to be at rest, as we often assume with our environment on...

The Coriolis effect (sometimes called the Coriolis force) is the apparent deflection of air masses and fluids caused by Earth's rotation. Named after the French mathematician Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis, (1792-1843), who developed the concept in...

The Coriolis force is not really a force in the true sense, but the effect of the Earth's rotation on the circulation of air and water at or near the Earth's surface. This apparent force was first observed by French physicist Gaspard Gustave de...

The Coriolis effect is the apparent deflection of moving objects from a straight path when they are viewed from a rotating frame of reference. The effect is named after Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, a French scientist who described it in 1835, though the...