AQA GCSE Geography · 8035
Specification 3.1.1.3 · Paper 1
The deflection of moving air caused by the Earth's rotation: to the right of its movement in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere.
Revise: Global Atmospheric CirculationThe Earth's rotation deflects moving air through the Coriolis effect: to the right of its movement in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere.
- Revise: Tropical Storms: Formation, Structure and Climate Change
The deflection of moving air caused by Earth's rotation; it helps tropical cyclones rotate anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.