If earth did not rotate, what would happen to the global winds and why?
The global winds would be very light and always in the same direction.
This is my opinion based on what I imagine would logically happen.
The lack of rotation would reduce the Coriolis effect to essentially zero. That means that air would move from high pressure to low pressure with almost no deflection at all. This would mean that high pressure centers and low pressure centers would not form locally.
There would be a permanent high pressure center at the sub point of the sun, and a permanent low pressure on the dark side of the planet due to the relationship between pressure and temperature. Since the pressure would balance out quickly due to no Coriolis, the difference between the high pressure side and low pressure side would be very little. The moving wind would always bring warm air from the "summer" side to the "winter" side and make the temperature difference very small.
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If the Earth did not rotate, global winds would not exist as they do today. The rotation of the Earth causes the Coriolis effect, which deflects moving objects, including air masses, to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. This deflection influences the direction of global wind patterns. Without Earth's rotation, there would be no Coriolis effect, and thus no distinct global wind patterns as we know them.
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