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Experiment: Oceanic overturning circulation (the slightly more complicated version)

mglessmer — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 05:36:11 +0000

The experiment presented on this page is called the “slightly more complicated version” because it builds on the experiment “oceanic overturning circulation (the easiest version)” here. Background One of the first concepts people hear about in the context of ocean and climate is the “great conveyor belt”. The great conveyor belt is a very simplified concept of the […]

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Experiment: Oceanic overturning circulation (the easiest version)

mglessmer — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:37:24 +0000

“The easiest” in the title of this page is to show the contrast to a “slightly more complicated” version here. Background One of the first concepts people hear about in the context of ocean and climate is the “great conveyor belt”. The great conveyor belt is a very simplified concept of the global ocean circulation, which is depicted as […]

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An overturning experiment (part 3)

mglessmer — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:19:33 +0000

By popular demand: A step-by-step description of the overturning experiment discussed here and here. I wrote this description a while ago and can’t be bothered to transfer it into the blog format, so please go and find a .pdf here. This .pdf addresses young children in the first part, and grown-ups in the second part. […]

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An overturning experiment (part 2)

mglessmer — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:13:30 +0000

How to adapt the same experiment to different levels of prior knowledge. In this post, I presented an experiment that I have run in a primary school, with high-school pupils, in a Bachelor-level course and in a Master-level course. The experiment itself was run identically in all cases. However, the introductions, explanations and discussions about […]

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An overturning experiment

mglessmer — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 05:45:17 +0000

A simple experiment that shows how the large-scale thermally-driven ocean circulation works. Someone recently asked me whether I had ideas for experiments for her course in ocean sciences for non-majors. Since most of the experiments I’ve been showing on this blog were run in the context of Bachelor or Master oceanography-major courses, she didn’t think […]

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