It is the balance of this horizontal pressure gradient and the acceleration provided by the spinning of the planet that is the dominate force balance in the atmosphere. It is called geostrophic equilibrium or geostrophic balance and it determines the horizontal structure of motion in the atmosphere.
Synopsis. Caroline Lucretia Herschel was born on March 16, 1750, in Hanover, Germany. She moved to England with her brother, Sir William Herschel, in 1772. She studied singing and they performed together until 1782, when her brother became a court astronomer for George III.
awards and honors. Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet, in full Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (born March 7, 1792, Slough, Buckinghamshire, Englandâdied May 11, 1871, Collingwood, Kent), English astronomer and successor to his father, Sir William Herschel, in the field of stellar and nebular observation and discovery. Early life.