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The most spectacular effect of rotation on a fluid flow is certainly the huge hurricanes surging up in the Earth’s atmosphere when the waters of the ocean are warm enough. These huge flows, so typical in pictures of the Earth, would not exist if the Earth were not rotating. They owe their existence to the Coriolis acceleration.
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Rieutord, M. (2015). Rotating Fluids. In: Fluid Dynamics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09351-2_8
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