• 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...
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    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...
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    dynamical vorticity balance between the wind-stress curl and the meridional gradient of the Coriolis parameter, the Sverdrup balance. This balance describes wind-driven...
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  • near the Moon's south pole Sverdrup Township, Minnesota Johan Sverdrup oil field, often abbreviated as Sverdrup Sverdrup balance, an oceanographic theory...
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    the establishment of the large-scale ocean flow pattern called the Sverdrup balance. The practical impact of the "Coriolis effect" is mostly caused by...
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    Sverdrup quantified this phenomenon in his 1947 paper, "Wind Driven Currents in a Baroclinic Ocean", in which the (depth-integrated) Sverdrup balance...
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  • gyre Overflow Princeton ocean model Rip current Subsurface currents Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Wind generated current...
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    gyre Overflow Princeton ocean model Rip current Subsurface currents Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Wind generated current...
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    equatorward flow throughout most of a subtropical ocean basin (the Sverdrup balance). The return flow occurs in an intense, narrow, poleward western boundary...
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    gyre Overflow Princeton ocean model Rip current Subsurface currents Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Wind generated current...
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  • 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...
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  • dynamics were formulated by Harald Sverdrup and came to be known as Sverdrup dynamics. Important is the Sverdrup balance which describes the relation between...
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    65). Harald Sverdrup applied Ekman transport while including pressure gradient forces to develop a theory for this (see Sverdrup balance). Oceans portal...
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    Thermohaline circulation Boundary current Sverdrup balance Subsurface currents Kelvin wave Rossby wave Sverdrup wave (Poincaré wave) Gravity wave Geophysical...
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    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...
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    gyre Overflow Princeton ocean model Rip current Subsurface currents Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Wind generated current...
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    gyre Overflow Princeton ocean model Rip current Subsurface currents Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Wind generated current...
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  • gyre Overflow Princeton ocean model Rip current Subsurface currents Sverdrup balance Thermohaline circulation shutdown Upwelling Wind generated current...
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    Stermieri, Giacomo Marzi, and Massimiliano Furia) Isla Decepción 2019 Sverdrup Balance (Lawrence Casserley, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, and Yoko Miura) New...
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    Suncor Energy, began operating exploration oil wells in the Franklinian and Sverdrup basins and planned on establishing its resource base in the Queen Elizabeth...
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    beneath surface currents Sverdrup – Unit of measurement of the volumetric rate of transport of ocean currents Sverdrup balance – A theoretical relationship...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Sverdrup Gold Medal Award – is the American Meteorological Society's award granted to researchers who make outstanding contributions to the scientific...
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    Harald Sverdrup published the "Critical Depth Hypothesis" based on observations he had made in the North Atlantic on the Weather Ship M. Sverdrup provides...
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    16 July 2021. Avakov, Aleksandr Vladimirovich (2012). Quality of Life, Balance of Powers, and Nuclear Weapons (2012): A Statistical Yearbook for Statesmen...
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    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...
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  • species congregate around a watering hole. 2 "The First Frontier" Gisle Sverdrup October 25, 2023 (2023-10-25) In the Precambrian seas, plankton develops...
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