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Will winds always be the same?


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Around Earth's equator, there's a band of low pressure called the Doldrums. 30 degrees north and south are bands of high pressure called the horse latitudes. Finally, there are more low-pressure bands in the polar regions called the polar fronts. Air moves from the horse latitudes to the low pressure areas, and is deflected by the Coriolis effect, creating the prevailing winds.



enter image description here



Would the above diagram apply to pretty much any planet in terms of prevailing wind direction?



Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, if the planet rotated westward rather than eastward, the direction would be flipped because of the different Coriolis effect. Also, a higher speed of rotation would increase the Coriolis force (hence Jupiter's centuries-lasting storms), but that wouldn't change the direction of the winds to my knowledge.










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    Around Earth's equator, there's a band of low pressure called the Doldrums. 30 degrees north and south are bands of high pressure called the horse latitudes. Finally, there are more low-pressure bands in the polar regions called the polar fronts. Air moves from the horse latitudes to the low pressure areas, and is deflected by the Coriolis effect, creating the prevailing winds.



    enter image description here



    Would the above diagram apply to pretty much any planet in terms of prevailing wind direction?



    Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, if the planet rotated westward rather than eastward, the direction would be flipped because of the different Coriolis effect. Also, a higher speed of rotation would increase the Coriolis force (hence Jupiter's centuries-lasting storms), but that wouldn't change the direction of the winds to my knowledge.










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      Around Earth's equator, there's a band of low pressure called the Doldrums. 30 degrees north and south are bands of high pressure called the horse latitudes. Finally, there are more low-pressure bands in the polar regions called the polar fronts. Air moves from the horse latitudes to the low pressure areas, and is deflected by the Coriolis effect, creating the prevailing winds.



      enter image description here



      Would the above diagram apply to pretty much any planet in terms of prevailing wind direction?



      Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, if the planet rotated westward rather than eastward, the direction would be flipped because of the different Coriolis effect. Also, a higher speed of rotation would increase the Coriolis force (hence Jupiter's centuries-lasting storms), but that wouldn't change the direction of the winds to my knowledge.










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      Around Earth's equator, there's a band of low pressure called the Doldrums. 30 degrees north and south are bands of high pressure called the horse latitudes. Finally, there are more low-pressure bands in the polar regions called the polar fronts. Air moves from the horse latitudes to the low pressure areas, and is deflected by the Coriolis effect, creating the prevailing winds.



      enter image description here



      Would the above diagram apply to pretty much any planet in terms of prevailing wind direction?



      Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, if the planet rotated westward rather than eastward, the direction would be flipped because of the different Coriolis effect. Also, a higher speed of rotation would increase the Coriolis force (hence Jupiter's centuries-lasting storms), but that wouldn't change the direction of the winds to my knowledge.







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          No, wind patterns are not always going to be the same.



          Venus is a key counterexample here. Its Hadley cells extend to 60 degrees above and below the equator - double the size of Earth's Hadley cells. In other words, they extend above the subtropics and through what would be considered, on Earth, temperature zones. It's been proposed that in the past, Earth's Hadley cells extended to the poles, during periods of higher global temperatures. The cells then transported heat to higher latitudes.



          The key point here is that there's no change in the direction of circulation on Venus at middle latitudes - like the Ferrel cells you note. Instead, in each hemisphere, there's uniform circulation until you get the poles, where you find cooler winds, just like on Earth. Polar vortices can be found here.



          There are a couple other peculiarities about the atmosphere of Venus that I should mention:



          • Its atmosphere exhibits super-rotation, where the atmosphere travels faster than the planet (thanks partly because of Venus's extremely slow rotation).

          • The atmosphere has a retrograde rotation, like the planet itself.

          • The pressure gradient $nabla p$ is not influenced primarily by the Coriolis force - which is essentially $0$ - but instead by the centrifugal force.

          This last point is actually really important, and does contribute to wind direction.






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            Insofar as we have data, you are correct, but...



            If the only thing you're considering is the planet and nothing else, then you are correct. All planets will experience fundamentally identical behavior (winds moving with the direction of rotation), differing only in the details (where the pressure zones are, wind force, etc.).



            However..



            If you spin the planet fast enough, I can imagine some of those rules shifting. Yes, the wind will still move generally in the direction of rotation, but ultra high rotation would begin to overcome the longitudinal wind cycles.



            The rules would change even more in a binary (or more) star system where heat is applied in a much more complex manner than here on Earth.



            And they'd change even more for a tidally-locked planet where the rotation might not be enough to overcome cycles over the light terminator at all. This is the case where better analysis than I can provide would be hugely interesting, because you may see no rotational effects of the wind. (A tidally-locked planet does rotate: once per orbit.)



            I also don't want to rule out the axial tilt. Uranus' axial tilt (about 98°) would suggest the possibility of some wild wind changes through the course of a year. However, Uranus is so far away from the sun that images clearly show a rotational wind pattern. But if Uranus were in Earth's orbit such that annual heating (somtimes polar, sometimes equatorial) could seriously affect the winds... and if uranus were Earth-sized such that gravity had less hold for the sake of rotational patterns... that could be a fascinating analysis.



            enter image description here



            Image courtesy Space.com



            I also suspect that if Mercury had enough mass to host a thicker atmosphere that the heat from the sun would disrupt rotational patterns on the sun-side, but they'd reassert on the night-side. That would cause huge circum-terminator cycles. Cool.



            The problem is low data



            The universe is constantly surprising us. We're finding planets in orbits that not too ago we thought impossible. We're discovering star and galactic formations that reveal the wonderful complexity of what we call home. When it comes to wind patterns, we have basically nine datapoints all within a single stellar configuration. Any statistician worth his salt would tell you that's a sample too small to make universal (literally) assumptions.



            But I think there's enough flexibility in what we do know to rationalize a story with a planet hosting non-terrestrial wind patterns.






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              Thanks for your answer. Would the order of the pressure zones always be the same? Could you, for example, have a planet with high-pressure bands at the equator and poles and low-pressure ones in between?
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              The simple answer is no. You must have an external force (like a sun's heat, possibly exacerbated by axial tilt) to overcome rotational patterns. Having very low rotation (tidally-locked) or very low gravity (low atmosphere) also exacerbates external effects - but the external effects must be present. Given only the rotational bias of the planet, the order of pressure zones would (insofar as we know!) be the same. (Realize that, as much as we know, we actually know very little. This will be our belief right up until we find a planet that doesn't conform.)
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            No, wind patterns are not always going to be the same.



            Venus is a key counterexample here. Its Hadley cells extend to 60 degrees above and below the equator - double the size of Earth's Hadley cells. In other words, they extend above the subtropics and through what would be considered, on Earth, temperature zones. It's been proposed that in the past, Earth's Hadley cells extended to the poles, during periods of higher global temperatures. The cells then transported heat to higher latitudes.



            The key point here is that there's no change in the direction of circulation on Venus at middle latitudes - like the Ferrel cells you note. Instead, in each hemisphere, there's uniform circulation until you get the poles, where you find cooler winds, just like on Earth. Polar vortices can be found here.



            There are a couple other peculiarities about the atmosphere of Venus that I should mention:



            • Its atmosphere exhibits super-rotation, where the atmosphere travels faster than the planet (thanks partly because of Venus's extremely slow rotation).

            • The atmosphere has a retrograde rotation, like the planet itself.

            • The pressure gradient $nabla p$ is not influenced primarily by the Coriolis force - which is essentially $0$ - but instead by the centrifugal force.

            This last point is actually really important, and does contribute to wind direction.






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              No, wind patterns are not always going to be the same.



              Venus is a key counterexample here. Its Hadley cells extend to 60 degrees above and below the equator - double the size of Earth's Hadley cells. In other words, they extend above the subtropics and through what would be considered, on Earth, temperature zones. It's been proposed that in the past, Earth's Hadley cells extended to the poles, during periods of higher global temperatures. The cells then transported heat to higher latitudes.



              The key point here is that there's no change in the direction of circulation on Venus at middle latitudes - like the Ferrel cells you note. Instead, in each hemisphere, there's uniform circulation until you get the poles, where you find cooler winds, just like on Earth. Polar vortices can be found here.



              There are a couple other peculiarities about the atmosphere of Venus that I should mention:



              • Its atmosphere exhibits super-rotation, where the atmosphere travels faster than the planet (thanks partly because of Venus's extremely slow rotation).

              • The atmosphere has a retrograde rotation, like the planet itself.

              • The pressure gradient $nabla p$ is not influenced primarily by the Coriolis force - which is essentially $0$ - but instead by the centrifugal force.

              This last point is actually really important, and does contribute to wind direction.






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                No, wind patterns are not always going to be the same.



                Venus is a key counterexample here. Its Hadley cells extend to 60 degrees above and below the equator - double the size of Earth's Hadley cells. In other words, they extend above the subtropics and through what would be considered, on Earth, temperature zones. It's been proposed that in the past, Earth's Hadley cells extended to the poles, during periods of higher global temperatures. The cells then transported heat to higher latitudes.



                The key point here is that there's no change in the direction of circulation on Venus at middle latitudes - like the Ferrel cells you note. Instead, in each hemisphere, there's uniform circulation until you get the poles, where you find cooler winds, just like on Earth. Polar vortices can be found here.



                There are a couple other peculiarities about the atmosphere of Venus that I should mention:



                • Its atmosphere exhibits super-rotation, where the atmosphere travels faster than the planet (thanks partly because of Venus's extremely slow rotation).

                • The atmosphere has a retrograde rotation, like the planet itself.

                • The pressure gradient $nabla p$ is not influenced primarily by the Coriolis force - which is essentially $0$ - but instead by the centrifugal force.

                This last point is actually really important, and does contribute to wind direction.






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                No, wind patterns are not always going to be the same.



                Venus is a key counterexample here. Its Hadley cells extend to 60 degrees above and below the equator - double the size of Earth's Hadley cells. In other words, they extend above the subtropics and through what would be considered, on Earth, temperature zones. It's been proposed that in the past, Earth's Hadley cells extended to the poles, during periods of higher global temperatures. The cells then transported heat to higher latitudes.



                The key point here is that there's no change in the direction of circulation on Venus at middle latitudes - like the Ferrel cells you note. Instead, in each hemisphere, there's uniform circulation until you get the poles, where you find cooler winds, just like on Earth. Polar vortices can be found here.



                There are a couple other peculiarities about the atmosphere of Venus that I should mention:



                • Its atmosphere exhibits super-rotation, where the atmosphere travels faster than the planet (thanks partly because of Venus's extremely slow rotation).

                • The atmosphere has a retrograde rotation, like the planet itself.

                • The pressure gradient $nabla p$ is not influenced primarily by the Coriolis force - which is essentially $0$ - but instead by the centrifugal force.

                This last point is actually really important, and does contribute to wind direction.







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                    Insofar as we have data, you are correct, but...



                    If the only thing you're considering is the planet and nothing else, then you are correct. All planets will experience fundamentally identical behavior (winds moving with the direction of rotation), differing only in the details (where the pressure zones are, wind force, etc.).



                    However..



                    If you spin the planet fast enough, I can imagine some of those rules shifting. Yes, the wind will still move generally in the direction of rotation, but ultra high rotation would begin to overcome the longitudinal wind cycles.



                    The rules would change even more in a binary (or more) star system where heat is applied in a much more complex manner than here on Earth.



                    And they'd change even more for a tidally-locked planet where the rotation might not be enough to overcome cycles over the light terminator at all. This is the case where better analysis than I can provide would be hugely interesting, because you may see no rotational effects of the wind. (A tidally-locked planet does rotate: once per orbit.)



                    I also don't want to rule out the axial tilt. Uranus' axial tilt (about 98°) would suggest the possibility of some wild wind changes through the course of a year. However, Uranus is so far away from the sun that images clearly show a rotational wind pattern. But if Uranus were in Earth's orbit such that annual heating (somtimes polar, sometimes equatorial) could seriously affect the winds... and if uranus were Earth-sized such that gravity had less hold for the sake of rotational patterns... that could be a fascinating analysis.



                    enter image description here



                    Image courtesy Space.com



                    I also suspect that if Mercury had enough mass to host a thicker atmosphere that the heat from the sun would disrupt rotational patterns on the sun-side, but they'd reassert on the night-side. That would cause huge circum-terminator cycles. Cool.



                    The problem is low data



                    The universe is constantly surprising us. We're finding planets in orbits that not too ago we thought impossible. We're discovering star and galactic formations that reveal the wonderful complexity of what we call home. When it comes to wind patterns, we have basically nine datapoints all within a single stellar configuration. Any statistician worth his salt would tell you that's a sample too small to make universal (literally) assumptions.



                    But I think there's enough flexibility in what we do know to rationalize a story with a planet hosting non-terrestrial wind patterns.






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                    • $begingroup$
                      Thanks for your answer. Would the order of the pressure zones always be the same? Could you, for example, have a planet with high-pressure bands at the equator and poles and low-pressure ones in between?
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                      – SealBoi
                      5 hours ago






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                      The simple answer is no. You must have an external force (like a sun's heat, possibly exacerbated by axial tilt) to overcome rotational patterns. Having very low rotation (tidally-locked) or very low gravity (low atmosphere) also exacerbates external effects - but the external effects must be present. Given only the rotational bias of the planet, the order of pressure zones would (insofar as we know!) be the same. (Realize that, as much as we know, we actually know very little. This will be our belief right up until we find a planet that doesn't conform.)
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                    Insofar as we have data, you are correct, but...



                    If the only thing you're considering is the planet and nothing else, then you are correct. All planets will experience fundamentally identical behavior (winds moving with the direction of rotation), differing only in the details (where the pressure zones are, wind force, etc.).



                    However..



                    If you spin the planet fast enough, I can imagine some of those rules shifting. Yes, the wind will still move generally in the direction of rotation, but ultra high rotation would begin to overcome the longitudinal wind cycles.



                    The rules would change even more in a binary (or more) star system where heat is applied in a much more complex manner than here on Earth.



                    And they'd change even more for a tidally-locked planet where the rotation might not be enough to overcome cycles over the light terminator at all. This is the case where better analysis than I can provide would be hugely interesting, because you may see no rotational effects of the wind. (A tidally-locked planet does rotate: once per orbit.)



                    I also don't want to rule out the axial tilt. Uranus' axial tilt (about 98°) would suggest the possibility of some wild wind changes through the course of a year. However, Uranus is so far away from the sun that images clearly show a rotational wind pattern. But if Uranus were in Earth's orbit such that annual heating (somtimes polar, sometimes equatorial) could seriously affect the winds... and if uranus were Earth-sized such that gravity had less hold for the sake of rotational patterns... that could be a fascinating analysis.



                    enter image description here



                    Image courtesy Space.com



                    I also suspect that if Mercury had enough mass to host a thicker atmosphere that the heat from the sun would disrupt rotational patterns on the sun-side, but they'd reassert on the night-side. That would cause huge circum-terminator cycles. Cool.



                    The problem is low data



                    The universe is constantly surprising us. We're finding planets in orbits that not too ago we thought impossible. We're discovering star and galactic formations that reveal the wonderful complexity of what we call home. When it comes to wind patterns, we have basically nine datapoints all within a single stellar configuration. Any statistician worth his salt would tell you that's a sample too small to make universal (literally) assumptions.



                    But I think there's enough flexibility in what we do know to rationalize a story with a planet hosting non-terrestrial wind patterns.






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                    • $begingroup$
                      Thanks for your answer. Would the order of the pressure zones always be the same? Could you, for example, have a planet with high-pressure bands at the equator and poles and low-pressure ones in between?
                      $endgroup$
                      – SealBoi
                      5 hours ago






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                      The simple answer is no. You must have an external force (like a sun's heat, possibly exacerbated by axial tilt) to overcome rotational patterns. Having very low rotation (tidally-locked) or very low gravity (low atmosphere) also exacerbates external effects - but the external effects must be present. Given only the rotational bias of the planet, the order of pressure zones would (insofar as we know!) be the same. (Realize that, as much as we know, we actually know very little. This will be our belief right up until we find a planet that doesn't conform.)
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                    Insofar as we have data, you are correct, but...



                    If the only thing you're considering is the planet and nothing else, then you are correct. All planets will experience fundamentally identical behavior (winds moving with the direction of rotation), differing only in the details (where the pressure zones are, wind force, etc.).



                    However..



                    If you spin the planet fast enough, I can imagine some of those rules shifting. Yes, the wind will still move generally in the direction of rotation, but ultra high rotation would begin to overcome the longitudinal wind cycles.



                    The rules would change even more in a binary (or more) star system where heat is applied in a much more complex manner than here on Earth.



                    And they'd change even more for a tidally-locked planet where the rotation might not be enough to overcome cycles over the light terminator at all. This is the case where better analysis than I can provide would be hugely interesting, because you may see no rotational effects of the wind. (A tidally-locked planet does rotate: once per orbit.)



                    I also don't want to rule out the axial tilt. Uranus' axial tilt (about 98°) would suggest the possibility of some wild wind changes through the course of a year. However, Uranus is so far away from the sun that images clearly show a rotational wind pattern. But if Uranus were in Earth's orbit such that annual heating (somtimes polar, sometimes equatorial) could seriously affect the winds... and if uranus were Earth-sized such that gravity had less hold for the sake of rotational patterns... that could be a fascinating analysis.



                    enter image description here



                    Image courtesy Space.com



                    I also suspect that if Mercury had enough mass to host a thicker atmosphere that the heat from the sun would disrupt rotational patterns on the sun-side, but they'd reassert on the night-side. That would cause huge circum-terminator cycles. Cool.



                    The problem is low data



                    The universe is constantly surprising us. We're finding planets in orbits that not too ago we thought impossible. We're discovering star and galactic formations that reveal the wonderful complexity of what we call home. When it comes to wind patterns, we have basically nine datapoints all within a single stellar configuration. Any statistician worth his salt would tell you that's a sample too small to make universal (literally) assumptions.



                    But I think there's enough flexibility in what we do know to rationalize a story with a planet hosting non-terrestrial wind patterns.






                    share|improve this answer









                    $endgroup$



                    Insofar as we have data, you are correct, but...



                    If the only thing you're considering is the planet and nothing else, then you are correct. All planets will experience fundamentally identical behavior (winds moving with the direction of rotation), differing only in the details (where the pressure zones are, wind force, etc.).



                    However..



                    If you spin the planet fast enough, I can imagine some of those rules shifting. Yes, the wind will still move generally in the direction of rotation, but ultra high rotation would begin to overcome the longitudinal wind cycles.



                    The rules would change even more in a binary (or more) star system where heat is applied in a much more complex manner than here on Earth.



                    And they'd change even more for a tidally-locked planet where the rotation might not be enough to overcome cycles over the light terminator at all. This is the case where better analysis than I can provide would be hugely interesting, because you may see no rotational effects of the wind. (A tidally-locked planet does rotate: once per orbit.)



                    I also don't want to rule out the axial tilt. Uranus' axial tilt (about 98°) would suggest the possibility of some wild wind changes through the course of a year. However, Uranus is so far away from the sun that images clearly show a rotational wind pattern. But if Uranus were in Earth's orbit such that annual heating (somtimes polar, sometimes equatorial) could seriously affect the winds... and if uranus were Earth-sized such that gravity had less hold for the sake of rotational patterns... that could be a fascinating analysis.



                    enter image description here



                    Image courtesy Space.com



                    I also suspect that if Mercury had enough mass to host a thicker atmosphere that the heat from the sun would disrupt rotational patterns on the sun-side, but they'd reassert on the night-side. That would cause huge circum-terminator cycles. Cool.



                    The problem is low data



                    The universe is constantly surprising us. We're finding planets in orbits that not too ago we thought impossible. We're discovering star and galactic formations that reveal the wonderful complexity of what we call home. When it comes to wind patterns, we have basically nine datapoints all within a single stellar configuration. Any statistician worth his salt would tell you that's a sample too small to make universal (literally) assumptions.



                    But I think there's enough flexibility in what we do know to rationalize a story with a planet hosting non-terrestrial wind patterns.







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                      Thanks for your answer. Would the order of the pressure zones always be the same? Could you, for example, have a planet with high-pressure bands at the equator and poles and low-pressure ones in between?
                      $endgroup$
                      – SealBoi
                      5 hours ago






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                      The simple answer is no. You must have an external force (like a sun's heat, possibly exacerbated by axial tilt) to overcome rotational patterns. Having very low rotation (tidally-locked) or very low gravity (low atmosphere) also exacerbates external effects - but the external effects must be present. Given only the rotational bias of the planet, the order of pressure zones would (insofar as we know!) be the same. (Realize that, as much as we know, we actually know very little. This will be our belief right up until we find a planet that doesn't conform.)
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                      Thanks for your answer. Would the order of the pressure zones always be the same? Could you, for example, have a planet with high-pressure bands at the equator and poles and low-pressure ones in between?
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                      5 hours ago






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                      The simple answer is no. You must have an external force (like a sun's heat, possibly exacerbated by axial tilt) to overcome rotational patterns. Having very low rotation (tidally-locked) or very low gravity (low atmosphere) also exacerbates external effects - but the external effects must be present. Given only the rotational bias of the planet, the order of pressure zones would (insofar as we know!) be the same. (Realize that, as much as we know, we actually know very little. This will be our belief right up until we find a planet that doesn't conform.)
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                    Thanks for your answer. Would the order of the pressure zones always be the same? Could you, for example, have a planet with high-pressure bands at the equator and poles and low-pressure ones in between?
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                    Thanks for your answer. Would the order of the pressure zones always be the same? Could you, for example, have a planet with high-pressure bands at the equator and poles and low-pressure ones in between?
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                    – SealBoi
                    5 hours ago




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                    The simple answer is no. You must have an external force (like a sun's heat, possibly exacerbated by axial tilt) to overcome rotational patterns. Having very low rotation (tidally-locked) or very low gravity (low atmosphere) also exacerbates external effects - but the external effects must be present. Given only the rotational bias of the planet, the order of pressure zones would (insofar as we know!) be the same. (Realize that, as much as we know, we actually know very little. This will be our belief right up until we find a planet that doesn't conform.)
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                    – JBH
                    5 hours ago




                    $begingroup$
                    The simple answer is no. You must have an external force (like a sun's heat, possibly exacerbated by axial tilt) to overcome rotational patterns. Having very low rotation (tidally-locked) or very low gravity (low atmosphere) also exacerbates external effects - but the external effects must be present. Given only the rotational bias of the planet, the order of pressure zones would (insofar as we know!) be the same. (Realize that, as much as we know, we actually know very little. This will be our belief right up until we find a planet that doesn't conform.)
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