Talk:Namib Desert

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There seems to be a problem in the caption for the "dune sea" figure:

"Note how the crests of the dunes are aligned in a marked northwest-southeast orientation. These crests form transverse to the formative wind (i.e. crosswise). The dunes act as obstacles, and obstacles cause winds to be deflected significantly to the right, in the southern hemisphere—in effect reorienting the southerly wind as a southwesterly wind."

I don't think that makes any sense--the Coriolis effect causes clockwise flow (to the right) in the Southern Hemisphere, but that doesn't have anything to do with obstacles, and the scale of individual dunes is way too small for it to matter. I would just say that the dune crests are probably transverse to the dominant wind direction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Audiosqueegee (talk • contribs) 17:59, 14 May 2008 (UTC)