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    In physical oceanography, Langmuir circulation consists of a series of shallow, slow, counter-rotating vortices at the ocean's surface aligned with the...
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    also create long convergence zones during sustained winds to create Langmuir circulation. Buoyancy is lost through cooling, evaporation, and brine rejection...
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    water would be 90 degrees from the original direction of the wind. Langmuir circulation results in the occurrence of thin, visible stripes, called windrows...
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    Irving Langmuir (/ˈlæŋmjʊər/; January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist, physicist, and engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
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  • probe Langmuir–Taylor detector Langmuir torch Langmuir turbulence Langmuir circulation Langmuir equation Langmuir wave Langmuir states Lewis–Langmuir theory...
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    Seaweed windrows form on sea or lake surfaces because of cylindrical Langmuir circulation just under the surface caused by wind action. Windrow composting...
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  • vorticity. The CL vortex force is used to explain the generation of Langmuir circulations by an instability mechanism. The CL vortex-force mechanism was derived...
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    coastal HABs. Effects of HABs can worsen locally due to wind driven Langmuir circulation and their biological effects. HABs from cyanobacteria (blue-green...
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  • Stream Halothermal circulation Humboldt Current Hydrothermal circulation Langmuir circulation Longshore drift Loop Current Modular Ocean Model Ocean current...
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  • In fluid dynamics, and oceanography, Langmuir turbulence is a turbulent flow with coherent Langmuir circulation structures that exist and evolve over a...
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    The local distribution of plankton can be affected by wind-driven Langmuir circulation and the biological effects of this physical process. Aside from representing...
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    depth, waves can interact with them to drive the process known as Langmuir circulation, large eddies that stir down to depths of tens of meters. The second...
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  • gravity waves. Along adjacent cells formed by wind currents. Langmuir circulation Ocean circulation Flotsam and jetsam Thomson, R.E. 1981. Oceanography of the...
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    Stream Halothermal circulation Humboldt Current Hydrothermal circulation Langmuir circulation Longshore drift Loop Current Modular Ocean Model Ocean current...
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    Stream Halothermal circulation Humboldt Current Hydrothermal circulation Langmuir circulation Longshore drift Loop Current Modular Ocean Model Ocean current...
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    Stream Halothermal circulation Humboldt Current Hydrothermal circulation Langmuir circulation Longshore drift Loop Current Modular Ocean Model Ocean current...
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    Stream Halothermal circulation Humboldt Current Hydrothermal circulation Langmuir circulation Longshore drift Loop Current Modular Ocean Model Ocean current...
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    may develop up to sea-level. The presence of a rim produces restricted circulation in the back reef area and a lagoon may develop in which carbonate mud...
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    heat and evaporation Hydrothermal circulationCirculation of water driven by heat exchange Langmuir circulation – A series of shallow, slow, counter-rotating...
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     658; Langmuir 1972, p. 478 Langmuir 1972, pp. 477–478 Langmuir 1972, p. 479 Langmuir 1972, p. 479; see also Hillaby & Hillaby 2013, p. 658 Langmuir 1972...
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  • with a dissertation titled "The production and mixing effects of Langmuir circulations". Following her Ph.D., Nepf was a postdoctoral scholar at Woods...
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    from many sources, including thermal convection, wind, waves, and Langmuir circulation. It mixes the upper layer by overturning fluid and particles, reducing...
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    Non-Newtonian Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces". Langmuir. 39 (16): 5793–5802. doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c00043. PMC 10134492. PMID 37041655. Rubenzahl...
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    wind can create turbulent, spiral-formed surface currents called Langmuir circulations. Exactly how these currents become established is still not well...
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    oscillatory flows. It plays a crucial role in the generation of Langmuir circulations. For nonlinear[disambiguation needed] and periodic water waves,...
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  • for Lagrangian ocean analysis has been computed using an ocean general circulation model (OGCM). Lagrangian techniques can be employed on a range of scales...
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  • liquid Langmuir circulation – Series of shallow, slow, counter-rotating vortices at the ocean's surface aligned with the wind Secondary circulation – Circulation...
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    Mathematics. His research was critical in the understanding of Langmuir circulations. and two instabilities of Ekman boundary layers. Some of Alan J...
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  • dynamics Langevin equation Langevin function Langmuir circulation Langmuir probe Langmuir waves Langmuir–Blodgett film Langworthy Professor Laplace formula...
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    first stage occurs after the droplets coalesce onto the various nuclei. Langmuir writes that surface tension in the water droplets provides a slightly higher...
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