About This Lesson
In Wind, Segment 5: Global Circulation we watch as Taka Ito, a researcher and oceanographer in the Atmospheric Science Deparment at CSU, demonstrates global circulation of wind and how the spin of the earth affects the wind. Using a spinning water tank with warm and cold water, he replicates the impacts on wind effected by the cold north pole and the warm equator. Tags: Little Shop of Physics, Colorado State University, Brian Jones, K-12, Physics