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Ice cubes melting in fresh water and salt water

October 10, 2019

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…

Stuff you can (and should!) observe in your kitchen: circulation in the water when boiling eggs

August 31, 2018

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?

March 21, 2017

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

November 6, 2015

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

October 16, 2015

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

June 22, 2015

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

April 10, 2014

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.…

Tag: convection

Ice cubes melting in fresh water and salt water

Stuff you can (and should!) observe in your kitchen: circulation in the water when boiling eggs

On the impact of blogging — or how far does my message mix?

Temperature-driven overturning experiment – the easy way

Granular convection

Cloud waves – wave clouds

Lava

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