As air is sucked into the low-pressure center of the storm, momentum builds; the vortex tightens, and wind speeds increase. The Coriolis effect shapes those winds into a spiral, creating a ...

Tornadoes typically spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere. However, a small percentage do spin in the opposite direction. Here's why.

Wind moves the surface waters by friction, but away from the equator the Coriolis effect means this is diverted, to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left south of the equator ...

Another wind, the Coriolis Force, deflects this warmer water ... and mammals such as seals and whales. Because of the effect of the upwelling along the Benguela coast, the Namib supports a biomass ...

Waves, tide, and wind dominate coastal processes and landforms ... and are deflected equatorward by the Coriolis effect, arriving from the northwest in the northern hemisphere and southwest ...