#coriolis

3 articles

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 min read·Jul 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 min read·Jul 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 min read·Jul 13, 2026