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Coriolis acceleration
Article By:
Kessler, Edwin Formerly, National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma.
Last reviewed:January 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.162510
An acceleration which arises as a result of motion of a particle relative to a rotating system. Only the components of motion in a plane parallel to the equatorial plane are influenced. Coriolis accelerations are important to the circulation of planetary atmospheres, and also in ballistics. They are so called after G. de Coriolis, the French engineer and mathematician whose analysis of the phenomenon was published in 1835. See also: Acceleration; Ballistics
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