Mirjam Sophia Glessmer

Tag: circulation

Continuity

What do you see when you look at an aquarium? When I was in Gothenburg last year for EMSEA14, one night we got to hang out at the Sjöfartsmuseet Akvariet there,…
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Eddies in a jar

Rotating experiments in your kitchen. Do you know those Saturday mornings when you wake up and just know that you have to do oceanography experiments? I had one of those…
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Hadley cell experiment

Cooling and rotation combined. (deutscher Text unten) I can’t believe I haven’t blogged about this experiment before now! Pierre and I have conducted it a number of times, but somehow…
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Langmuir circulation, take 2

Attempt at mechanistic understanding of Langmuir circulation. After  complaining about how I didn’t have mechanistic understanding of Langmuir circulation recently, and how I was too lazy to do a real literature…
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Water seeks its level.

A solution for the siphon problem of the fjord circulation experiment. After having run the fjord circulation experiments for several years in a row with several groups of students each…
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Fjord circulation

Tank experiment on a typical circulation in a fjord. Traditionally, a fjord circulation experiment has been done in GEOF130’s student practicals. Pierre and I recently met up to test-run the…
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Langmuir circulation

We think we observed Langmuir circulation, but we don’t understand the mechanism causing it. Recently, my friend Leela came to visit Bergen and we went on a fjord cruise to…
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