Sentences with phrase «sverdrup flow»

Well Norwegian scientist Harald Sverdrup realized that the amount of water flowing through was to big to be measured in gallons or liters, so he came up with the term «the Sverdrup» which is «one million cubic meters of water per second», and there is 20 - 22 Sverdrups flowing through.

Not exact matches

Both of the recorded winters were unusually cold and created similarly large amounts of deep water, but the strength of the AMOC whipsawed wildly between 8 and 25 sverdrups, a unit of flow roughly equivalent to the total flow of all the world's rivers.

This leads to slow equatorward flow throughout most of a subtropical ocean basin (the Sverdrup balance).

This circulation is about 15 Sverdrup (1 Sv = 1 km ^ 3 / sec), 15 times the combined total flow of all the rivers of the world (about 1 Sv).

Oceanographers measure the flow of water in currents in units of Sverdrups, with 1 Sverdrup = 106m3 / s (one thousandth of a cubic kilometer / second).

Currently, the estimated flow through the Drake Passage is 100 to 150 Sverdrup.