The earth’s surface is rushing along from west to east at about 1,000MPH at the equator. The earth is a huge centrifuge. It mixes and sorts the 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 lbs of earth’s atmosphere 24 hours per day 365 days per year. The result is that lighter fluids will tend to move toward the poles and heaver fluids tend to move toward the equator. This energy source moves weather fronts from the poles to the equator and back again. Horizontal weather is the effects of centripetal force acting within the confines of the atmosphere. The horizontal force is small, only a fraction of earth’s gravity.
Centripetal force and horizontal force are not the same. Horizontal force is centripetal force exerted in earth’s thin atmospheric channel. Horizontal weather is weather controlled by horizontal (tangential) force. Centripetal force is maximal at the equator while horizontal force is maximal at about 35degrees latitude and zero at the equator an poles. For further information please review the Abstract to this paper.
Horizontal weather is the interaction between parcels atmospheric air with different densities. The primary density variation is due to various water physical phases such as gaseous, liquid and solid.
Horizontal weather
The atmospheric volume
Polar jet stream
Rosby waves
Hurricanes
Hurricane genesis
Push-pull energy sources
Mountain blockage
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