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The Coriolis Force, or Coriolis Effect, is in many ways the most mysterious thing about living on a rotating globe. It has even been termed a “fictional force.”
The deflective force due to the Earth’s rotation, which is the key to the explanation of many phenomena in connection with the winds and the currents of the oceans, does not seem to be understood by meteorologists and writers on physical geography.
William Ferrel (1871)
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Hay, W.W. (2016). The Coriolis Effect
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In: Experimenting on a Small Planet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27404-1_23
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