The Coriolis force in relation to the sea and land breezes - a historical note.

Abstract

The deflecting effect of the earth's rotation on winds has been known since the writings of Hadley in 1735, and observations of the clockwise diurnal directional turning of the sea and land breezes in the Northern Hemisphere have been published in quantity since 1801. Haurwitz (1947) was the first to show dynamically that the Coriolis force can explain the observed diurnal directional turning of the sea and land breezes. Neumann (1977) emphasizes that the observed rate of rotation of direction is not constant over the diurnal cycle. Kusuda and Alpert (1983) study the dynamics of cases where the directional turning is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.-from Author