#BergenWaveWatching: Rainbows!
Reposting from Elin’s blog here! — Kjersti, Steffi, Elin and myself (Mirjam) recently discussed ways to better integrate the GEOF105 student cruise into the course. My suggestion was to ask…
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Lille Lungegårdsvannet
The geometric shape of Lille Lungegårdsvannet makes for perfect wave watching conditions. Not only when wanting to look at waves from all sides, but also when you are just fascinated…
Fløyen in the clouds
Yesterday, I went for a quick walk up Fløyen and really enjoyed it, despite the view being slightly different from what is usually shown on the postcards. Nice, some wake…
Bergen harbour wave watching
Oh look, someone built a perfect rectangular wave watching basin into Bergen harbour! As you see above, waves are propagating towards this little wave tank and into it. They then…
Some Bergen pics because this city is so pretty
Since it’s raining today (finally! I can’t be distracted by good weather all the time!) it’s time to post some Bergen pics! And yes, Kristin, they are all water-related. Sorry…
Roll waves in Bergen
They might not look like much, but when I spotted these in the street this morning, I was super excited: Roll waves! I marked some of them below (just to…
Visiting my friend’s office for some #wavewatching
Since we seem to be on the topic of wake watching these days, here are some pictures I took when visiting my friend Liz at the European Cruise Service’s offices…
Long-distance wave watching during sunset
Have you ever noticed how much you can observe when you look at water from a distance? For example in these pictures, you see the tracks of ships that are…
Fascinating how the same body of water can show up in so many different colors at once!
Stupid as it sounds, one of my favourite wave watching spots in Bergen is a busy bridge with a view onto another busy bridge. But the bridge goes across a…
How to use home-made surface drifters to teach oceanography
Very early knowledge about oceanography stems from beach finds that had to have been transported to that beach from far away because the finds themselves (pieces of trees, or coconuts,…
Why are they so much slower than I thought? Observing the group velocity vs phase velocity of waves
Have you ever seen a speedboat drive past, looked at its wake moving torwards you, then gotten distracted, and when you look back a little while later been surprised that…
At the end of the rainbow you’ll find … home-made surface drifters
For Lars Henrik and Harald‘s GEOF105 class we are deploying home-made surface drifters on the student cruise. Today I had the opportunity to join the cruise again, and since the weather today made…
Taking water samples
A big part of any oceanographic research cruise: Taking water samples. Here is a group of students practicing how to arm Niskin bottles that will go into the ocean open…
Home-made surface drifters
A bicycle safety flag, a plastic bucket, four paint roller trays — what are those people doing there?! Until now this might almost count as kitchen oceanography! Home-made surface drifters But it’s…
Rainbows in regnbyen Bergen
Yesterday when approaching Bergen airport, I saw something super cool: The lower half of a rainbow! Even though I grabbed my phone and snapped a picture in record time, I…
Alexander’s band: the dark space in between a primary and secondary rainbow
Bergen is a fairly wet place with on average 240 rain days every year. But that actually provides us with the perfect opportunity to see plenty of rainbows. Here is…
Diffraction of waves around obstacle
I have always really liked the artwork you see below that was installed in Store Lungegårdsvann when I still lived in Bergen. But on the pictures here you also see how…
Reflected wakes
When a ship has sailed past, at first you see only its wake. And then you see reflected bow waves interfering with the original wave pattern: See?