Compare and contrast the movement of surface currents with and without the Coriolis effect.. What will be an ideal response?
Without the Coriolis effect, water currents would form a regular and symmetrical gyre.
However, because the Coriolis effect is strongest near the poles, water flowing eastward at
high latitudes turns sooner to the right (clockwise), “short circuiting” the gyre. And because
the Coriolis effect is nonexistent at the equator, water flowing westward near the equator
tends not to turn clockwise until it encounters a blocking continent. Western boundary
currents are therefore faster and deeper than eastern boundary currents, and the geostrophic
hill is offset to the west.
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