Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Activity 4

Before I began this activity I knew very little about the Coriolis effect. I knew it had something to do with temperatures, but thats about all I knew.

This activity's objective was to understand how ocean currents work and the pattern and direction they go in.

I learned a lot from this activity. I learned that the Coriolis effect is the unequal heating and cooling of the atmosphere by the underlying ocean and land surfaces that produce winds. I also learned more about ocean currents.

Ocean currents drastically connect to the topic of the coriolis effect. The coriolis effect drives the ocean currents because the fluids cant keep up with the solid earth rotation.

Two relevent web links are
1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect
2) http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/coriolis_effect.html

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