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Why is the Coriolis effect observed in pictures taken from airplanes? Is
the airplane camera in a rotating frame?
I refer, for example, to Figure 12 of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect.
The cloud rotation does not seem to be merely “relative to the ground” – the
ground isn’t even visible.
Perhaps the effect is due to the fact that, even as seen from space, the low
pressure center is tied to a rotating earth.
Why has no one mentioned the vertical component of airflow?