Ice cubes melting in fresh water and salt water
Today we are doing the melting ice cubes experiment in fancy glasses, because Elin is giving a fancy lecture tonight: The Nansen Memorial Lecture of the Norwegian Science Academy in…
Tag: convection
Stuff you can (and should!) observe in your kitchen: circulation in the water when boiling eggs
Now that I have introduced the new tag “kitchen oceanography: food related” to my blog, it’s time to add a couple new posts to that category. And today I have…
On the impact of blogging — or how far does my message mix?
What is the impact of this blog? And who am I writing it for? Those are not questions I regularly ask myself. The main reason I started blogging was to…
Temperature-driven overturning experiment – the easy way
In my last post, I showed you the legendary overturning experiment. And guess what occurred to me? That there is an even easier way to show the same thing. No gel…
Granular convection
What is wrong with this picture? Don’t you guys make your parents stop the car when you drive by newly built walls in random villages somewhere when they are a…
Cloud waves – wave clouds
Another one of those days where I kinda wish I had taken at least some meteorology at some point (only “kind of” because I wouldn’t want to miss any of…
Lava
Don’t you just love lava lamps? I got a lot of weird looks when I excitedly told people about two years ago that I had just bought a lava lamp.…