Coriolis on Earth
Launch winds across a spinning Earth and watch them bend right in the Northern Hemisphere, left in the Southern, and straight on the equator.
- TypeScript
- Canvas
Live demo
The previous Coriolis simulator shows the effect on a small scale, but this same effect also shows up on the scale of planets, especially with winds bending. In this simulation, you can drag on the map to launch some initial wind, and it bends in a specific direction depending on which hemisphere you’re in. The bending is largest at the poles, though, because it depends on the sine of latitude.