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#coriolis
3 articles
Earth & Climate
The Coriolis Effect: Curved Paths on a Spinning World
Why moving air, water, and cannonballs curve on a rotating planet, why the effect scales with latitude, and why it has nothing to do with which way your sink drains.
10 minJul 24, 2026
Earth & Climate
Hurricanes: Nature's Heat Engines
Why a hurricane is a heat engine, not a wind machine: warm-ocean evaporation and latent heat are the fuel, the Coriolis effect only organises the spin, and a warming ocean tilts the odds toward the most intense storms.
10 minJul 14, 2026
Earth & Climate
Ocean Circulation
Why the Gulf Stream is narrow and fast, what the Coriolis effect actually does (and does not do), and what oceanographers really think about an AMOC collapse.
10 minJul 13, 2026