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How Earths rotation affects vortices in nature, such as hurricanes and ocean currents

2013-10-15 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter have in common? They are all examples of vortices, regions within a fluid (liquid, gas or plasma) where the flow spins around an imaginary straight or curved axis. Understanding how geophysical (natural world) vortices behave can be critical for tasks such as weather forecasting and environmental pollution monitoring. In a new paper in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers Junho Park and Paul Billant of the CNRS Laboratoire...

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