Question

Where on Earth’s surface might you be if you are experiencing the polar easterlies? Explain how air pressure, temperature, and the Coriolis effect influence the movement and direction of these winds.

Answer 1

You will be close to the poles if you are experiencing the polar easterlies since you gotta remember, the polar easterlies is cold, and they have winds that blow from the East.

Answer 2

If you're experiencing polar easterlies is because your in a polar region: North pole or South pole. These polar easterlies are cold, dry winds that blow in areas with high pressure, because those cold winds have more density and this pushes heavier the ground, creating high pressure zones.

So, this winds are deflected by Coriolis effect, which is the apparent change of direction, since that is given with a reference point. This direction changes is apparent because is caused by Coriolis forces which are, in fact, apparent forces.

This Coriolis effect only appears in moving systems of reference like the rotation of the Earth, its effect is to deflect the trajectory of some boys, like the wind, that's why in the equator, winds tend to repeal.