How does global wind patterns such as prevailing westerlies in the northern hemisphere get impacted if the rotation of Earth stops?

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Trant · Answer 1 · 2020-08-14T11:51:00+0000

If the earth did not rotate on its axis then the atmosphere would only circulate on its poles and the equator in a simple back and forth pattern.