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If an observer in the Northern Hemisphere faces the surface wind, where is the center of low pressure located?

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If an observer in the Northern Hemisphere faces the surface wind, where is the center of low pressure located?

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• Buys Ballot’s Law for the Northern Hemisphere • Direction of circulation around a low-pressure system in the Northern Hemisphere • Effect of the Coriolis force on surface winds in the Northern Hemisphere

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• If you know which way air circulates around a low in the Northern Hemisphere, where must that low be relative to the way you feel the wind on your face? • Imagine standing so that the wind you feel is blowing directly at your face. Trace backwards: from which side is that wind being deflected toward you by the Coriolis force? • Think about whether lows are associated with clockwise or counterclockwise flow in the Northern Hemisphere, and then picture yourself standing in that flow.

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• Verify that around a low in the Northern Hemisphere, winds circulate in a specific direction (clockwise or counterclockwise). • Confirm that surface winds spiral toward low pressure, not away from it. • Check how Buys Ballot’s Law describes the position of low pressure relative to the wind direction in the Northern Hemisphere (right side vs. left side, and slightly ahead vs. behind).

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If an observer in the Northern Hemisphere faces the surface wind, where is the center of low pressure located?

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If an observer in the Northern Hemisphere faces the surface wind, where is the center of low pressure located?

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