Sentences with phrase «of sverdrups»

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

# 49 The contribution of these large glaciers seems just that in terms of ice and water volume, but put in the context of sverdrups, is another question.

The organizing principles of climatology come from various threads, but I'd mention the oceanographic syntheses of Sverdrup and Stommel, the atmospheric syntheses of Charney and Lorenz, paleoclimatological studies from ice and mud core field work, and computational work starting with no less than John von Neumann.

Not exact matches

ORLAND PARK — Orland Park's Recreation Committee this week agreed to hire Sverdrup Inc. of Chicago to serve as the construction manager on the $ 10 million recreational facility.

This crucial current «has a mean strength of 19 sverdrups [more than 5 billion gallons per second] but varied substantially over the course of one year showing values between four and 35 [sverdrups].»

During World War II, Munk and Harald Sverdrup, then director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, developed a method to predict surf conditions on beaches — an important tool for military amphibious landings.

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.

The CTD sections show that the deeper layers are also warmer and slightly saltier and the observed sea level can be explained by steric expansion over the upper 2000 m. ENSO variability impacts on the northern part of the section, and a simple Sverdrup transport model shows how large - scale changes in the wind forcing, related to the Southern Annular Mode, may contribute to the deeper warming to the south.

Monday, September 8 9:15 - 14.15 − The Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures Presentations by the 2014 Kavli Prize Laureates − Astrophysics: Alan H. Guth, Andrei D. Linde, Alexei A. Starobinsky; Nanoscience: Thomas W. Ebbesen, Stefan W. Hell, Sir John B. Pendry, Neuroscience: Brenda Milner, John O'Keefe, Marcus E. Raichle Venue: Georg Sverdrups hus, University of Oslo

The simple rule of thumb is: melting Greenland during 1,000 years will provide an average freshwater inflow of 0.1 Sv (1 Sverdrup is one million cubic meters per second).

(The launch of our World Dignity University initiative takes place on 24th June 2011 at the University of Oslo in Norway, 10.00 - 12.00, Klubben, 2nd floor, University Library Georg Sverdrups House, Blindern.

So in the middle of these 22 Sverdrups lies the beautiful little island of Gili Trawangan.

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.

[Response: The classical (i.e. Stommel) theory of the subtropical gyre requires that the interior equatorward (Sverdrup) transport that takes place everywhere but a narrow strip along the western edge of the basin, precisely balance the poleward transport that takes place in a narrow boundary current along the western edge of the basin.

The simple rule of thumb is: melting Greenland during 1,000 years will provide an average freshwater inflow of 0.1 Sv (1 Sverdrup is one million cubic meters per second).

The mean contribution of the glacier has ranged from 1.0 to 1.5 sverdrups from 1950 - 2003, with an increase of 0.3 sv from 2001 - 2003.

This is equivalent to a heat flux of about 0.48 pW, or a circulation change of 116 Sverdrup * degrees C.

Captdallas: «The wind driven portion of the ACC circulation averages about 130 Sverdrups.

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).

Roemmich et al (2007) suggest that mid-latitude gyres in all of the oceans are influenced by decadal variability in the Southern and Northern Annular Modes (SAM and NAM respectively) as wind driven currents in baroclinic oceans (Sverdrup, 1947).

BTW, the ~ 100 Sverdrup ACC can have an annual OH uptake impact on the order of 6 x 10 ^ 22 joules and SSW events on the order of 10 ^ 22 joules, the current rate of OH uptake is likely not unprecedented.

The primary physical factor in determining the density of sea water is the temperature (Sverdrup, Johnson, and Fleming, 1943).

It transports water at a rate of 30 million cubic meters per second (30 sverdrups) through the Florida Straits.

-- then the answer is probably very little — the traditional thinking (Sverdrup's critical depth concept) has the bloom requiring stratification (otherwise algae moved up and down by mixing spend too little time in the illuminated part of the water column).

We measured the «strength» of the AMOC using the standard unit Sv (Sverdrups), where each Sv is 1 million cubic metres of water per second.

Scaled to the entire circumpolar current, the mixing we observe is compatible with there being a southern component to the global overturning in which about 20 sverdrups (1 Sv = 106 m3 s − 1) upwell in the Southern Ocean, with cross-density mixing contributing a significant fraction (20 to 30 per cent) of this total, and the remainder upwelling along constant - density surfaces.

«Here we provide evidence for a weakening of the AMOC by about 3 ± 1 sverdrups (around 15 per cent) since the mid-twentieth century.»