fog – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Fog showing stream lines around cruise liner

mglessmer — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 06:43:07 +0000

Whenever I get out of my house and it looks like this, I am slightly disappointed because it means that the wave watching that morning will not be ideal. I mean, I like colorful sunrises as much as the next person, buuuut… Today, at least, the fog was kinda interesting, also because there was a […]

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One of the most exciting things about work travel?

mglessmer — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:14:51 +0000

One of the most exciting things about work travel? Staying in tons of different hotels, which all have different opportunities to play with water. For example at a recent team event, there was this tap with a really efficient aerator, that made the hydraulic jump look even more exciting than usual: And then at a […]

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Fog and clouds in a bottle

mglessmer — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:43:35 +0000

A little bit of hands-on meteorology for a change. This post is inspired by www.planet-science.com‘s “fog in a bottle” and “make a cloud in a bottle” posts. Inspired meaning that I had to try and recreate their experiments after I saw this when approaching Zurich airport recently: So let’s start with fog in a bottle. I’m […]

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Advection fog

mglessmer — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:50:41 +0000

When warm, moist air is advected and brought in contact with colder surfaces. Recently I’ve been starting to think about a course I’ll be teaching later this year, and how it would be cool to have household examples for most, if not all, of the topics I’ll be talking about. So this is one example […]

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