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the debate
The ‘Ask an Expert’ section of the Scientific American web site contains a taster of the debate from 4 leading scientists at
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question
Essential coverage of the debate can also be found at
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/
Brief information about the Coriolis Force can be found on the web at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ with more detailed information at http://www.inwit.com/inwit/writings/coriolisforce.html which looks at whether it is actually a force!
weather
This page from The Weather Outlook has useful information about the atmosphere, trade winds and weather systems and briefly what effect Coriolis force has on these.
http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/library/
National Hurricane Centre
A US web site focuses mostly on hurricanes in the USA but has lots of images and a great FAQ section
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
How hurricanes work
Eight pages all about hurricanes, how they are formed, parts of a hurricane, size and location of hurricanes and the damage caused by them. It also includes links to information about tornados and other weather pages. Has lots of animations and pictures, but also runs "print friendly" pages along side the more complex ones.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/hurricane8.htm
further reading
A selection of articles about the Coriolis Force and Water Down the Plughole will also be available for download soon.
Watch this space!
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