convergence – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Surfactants

mglessmer — Tue, 16 May 2017 11:09:23 +0000

When I was talking about foam stripes the other day, you might have noticed that the foam stripe wasn’t a foam stripe all the way, but became “just a stripe”. And since I have been thinking about surfactants a lot recently, I think that’s actually what we are seeing in places where the stripe is […]

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Foam stripes

mglessmer — Tue, 09 May 2017 11:08:34 +0000

One sunny morning, I noticed The Stripe again: Running all the way up and down the coast. In places where there is a large fetch the stripe is clearly foamy: But looking downwind from the pier the picture above was taken from, the foam stripe becomes just a stripe! And looking in the same direction, […]

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More foam stripes

mglessmer — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:40:27 +0000

As you might have noticed, I am getting a little obsessed with those foam stripes. Another day, a little more wind, looking up the coast: And down the coast… Do you notice the irregularities in the foam stripe in the pictures above? Those are the places where, in much calmer weather, you see the funny […]

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Foam stripes mystery — closer to figuring out what’s going on?

mglessmer — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 07:52:32 +0000

I think I might be getting closer to understanding the foam stripe mystery. Remember how we’ve always observed them going in parallel to the coast? Yesterday I saw this again, looking up the coast in one direction… …and down the other direction. I’ve had the hypothesis that they might be somehow related to Langmuir circulation, […]

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Foam stripes again…

mglessmer — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:43:56 +0000

…because they follow the coastline so nicely and I still don’t understand what’s going on there…

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Those foam stripes parallel to the coast — again!

mglessmer — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 09:15:04 +0000

I think I might be getting obsessed with those stripes parallel to the coast. We saw them as foam stripes, eel grass stripes and now today: leaf stripes! Or should it be leaves stripes instead of leaf stripes? Interestingly enough, that day there wasn’t just one stripe, but in some places there were even two. It’s […]

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Foam stripes parallel to the coast, take 2

mglessmer — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 09:47:26 +0000

I recently got a new comment on my blog post on foam stripes parallel to the coast, and since you guys hardly ever comment on my blog (I like getting your emails! Really! But why not comment on here? ;-)) it spiked my interest enough to look out for more foam stripes. So about a […]

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