• The Sverdrup balance, or Sverdrup relation, is a theoretical relationship between the wind stress exerted on the surface of the open ocean and the vertically...
    6 KB (839 words) - 00:15, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boundary current
    vortex balance along an ocean gyre. Harald Sverdrup was the first one, preceding Henry Stommel, to attempt to explain the mid-ocean vorticity balance by looking...
    15 KB (2,033 words) - 18:20, 21 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer)
    dynamical vorticity balance between the wind-stress curl and the meridional gradient of the Coriolis parameter, the Sverdrup balance. This balance describes wind-driven...
    15 KB (1,167 words) - 15:20, 9 September 2024
  • near the Moon's south pole Sverdrup Township, Minnesota Johan Sverdrup oil field, often abbreviated as Sverdrup Sverdrup balance, an oceanographic theory...
    1 KB (218 words) - 16:40, 30 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Coriolis force
    the establishment of the large-scale ocean flow pattern called the Sverdrup balance. The practical impact of the "Coriolis effect" is mostly caused by...
    83 KB (10,440 words) - 19:04, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ocean gyre
    Sverdrup quantified this phenomenon in his 1947 paper, "Wind Driven Currents in a Baroclinic Ocean", in which the (depth-integrated) Sverdrup balance...
    63 KB (8,050 words) - 14:51, 28 August 2024
  • Overflow Princeton Ocean Model Rip current Subsurface ocean current Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Whirlpool Wind generated...
    1 KB (119 words) - 00:52, 23 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
    North Atlantic Deep Water Pacific decadal oscillation Paleosalinity Sverdrup balance West Greenland Current IPCC, 2021: Annex VII: Glossary [Matthews, J...
    125 KB (13,704 words) - 21:04, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Physical oceanography
    equatorward flow throughout most of a subtropical ocean basin (the Sverdrup balance). The return flow occurs in an intense, narrow, poleward western boundary...
    31 KB (3,737 words) - 19:27, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johan Sverdrup
    Johan Sverdrup (30 July 1816 – 17 February 1892) was a Norwegian politician from the Liberal Party. He was the first prime minister of Norway after the...
    16 KB (1,952 words) - 06:38, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geophysical fluid dynamics
    Thermohaline circulation Boundary current Sverdrup balance Subsurface currents Kelvin wave Rossby wave Sverdrup wave (Poincaré wave) Gravity wave Geophysical...
    10 KB (1,066 words) - 19:39, 20 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Wave base
    Overflow Princeton Ocean Model Rip current Subsurface ocean current Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Whirlpool Wind generated...
    3 KB (429 words) - 13:56, 29 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ekman transport
    65). Harald Sverdrup applied Ekman transport while including pressure gradient forces to develop a theory for this (see Sverdrup balance). Oceans portal...
    19 KB (2,769 words) - 11:39, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bahama Banks
    Overflow Princeton Ocean Model Rip current Subsurface ocean current Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Whirlpool Wind generated...
    5 KB (517 words) - 14:24, 12 March 2024
  • dynamics were formulated by Harald Sverdrup and came to be known as Sverdrup dynamics. Important is the Sverdrup balance which describes the relation between...
    24 KB (3,206 words) - 14:50, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    be quintessential for Sverdrup to build datasets supporting simple theories of ocean circulation, including the Sverdrup balance. When WWII broke out Scripps...
    73 KB (6,643 words) - 06:17, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oceanic plateau
    Overflow Princeton Ocean Model Rip current Subsurface ocean current Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Whirlpool Wind generated...
    11 KB (1,064 words) - 21:34, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for North Equatorial Current
    The advent water must have gone back to the east by some means. The Sverdrup balance can partly explain where the water ends up at. When the NEC and the...
    12 KB (1,392 words) - 12:48, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of submarine volcanoes
    Overflow Princeton Ocean Model Rip current Subsurface ocean current Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Whirlpool Wind generated...
    15 KB (324 words) - 21:31, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carbonate platform
    Overflow Princeton Ocean Model Rip current Subsurface ocean current Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Whirlpool Wind generated...
    32 KB (3,833 words) - 12:03, 28 November 2023
  • Stermieri, Giacomo Marzi, and Massimiliano Furia) Isla Decepción 2019 Sverdrup Balance (Lawrence Casserley, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, and Yoko Miura) New...
    54 KB (498 words) - 05:14, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Queen Elizabeth Islands
    Suncor Energy, began operating exploration oil wells in the Franklinian and Sverdrup basins and planned on establishing its resource base in the Queen Elizabeth...
    49 KB (2,533 words) - 04:09, 27 May 2024
  • Overflow Princeton Ocean Model Rip current Subsurface ocean current Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Whirlpool Wind generated...
    18 KB (2,231 words) - 05:50, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Outline of oceanography
    beneath surface currents Sverdrup – Unit of measurement of the volumetric rate of transport of ocean currents Sverdrup balance – A theoretical relationship...
    226 KB (32,625 words) - 05:22, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Axel Heiberg Island
    Axel Heiberg Island (category Sverdrup Islands)
    the larger members of the Arctic Archipelago, it is also a member of the Sverdrup Islands and Queen Elizabeth Islands. It is known for its unusual fossil...
    19 KB (2,154 words) - 15:41, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oceanography
    death in 1999. In 1940, Cupp was let go from her position at Scripps. Sverdrup specifically commended Cupp as a conscientious and industrious worker and...
    43 KB (5,082 words) - 06:32, 16 September 2024
  • Sverdrup Gold Medal Award – is the American Meteorological Society's award granted to researchers who make outstanding contributions to the scientific...
    13 KB (1,559 words) - 10:30, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Critical depth
    Harald Sverdrup published the "Critical Depth Hypothesis" based on observations he had made in the North Atlantic on the Weather Ship M. Sverdrup provides...
    25 KB (3,435 words) - 16:09, 5 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for International System of Units
    in particular areas. There are also individual metric units such as the sverdrup and the darcy that exist outside of any system of units. Most of the units...
    68 KB (5,863 words) - 02:24, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Equatorial Counter Current
    perfect balance between the mass field and velocity field), the NECC is located between the ridge and trough at 5°N and 10°N, respectively. Sverdrup theory...
    12 KB (1,595 words) - 02:14, 12 March 2024