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.
In the year 1800, William Herschel made another very important discovery. He was interested in learning how much heat passed through the different colored filters he used to observe the Sun and noticed that filters of different colors seemed to pass different levels of heat.