The apparent bend
Earth’s rotation changes the apparent path of moving air. In a rotating frame this deflection is described by the Coriolis effect: toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern.
FOLIA SEPARATA · MMXXVI
ORBIS MOBILIS · A SCHEMATIC ATMOSPHERE
The Turning World
A hand-made orthographic globe: sixteen stations, six broad wind belts, and moving ink-particles arranged as an explanatory model.
Drag the sphere · select a station · the ink-points follow a simplified wind field
The unequal furnace
Solar energy is not distributed evenly by latitude. Warm equatorial air rises and cooler air descends elsewhere, but continents, seasons, waves and eddies prevent the actual atmosphere from becoming a set of perfect rings.
Hadley, Ferrel, Polar
The six broad overturning cells are a useful zonal average. They explain persistent trade winds, mid-latitude westerlies and polar easterlies; they do not predict the weather above a particular street.
Symbol is not sensor
The particles are procedural ink, not observations. No live forecast, pressure analysis or hazardous-weather decision should be taken from this page. The model exists to make global relation visible.
THE SOURCE DESK
The circulation account follows modern explanatory material from NASA’s general-circulation notes and NOAA’s surface-current tutorial. The interaction is inspired by the communicative clarity of earth.nullschool.net; no code, data stream, map asset or visual layer has been copied.