langmuir circulation Archives - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

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

February 9, 2017

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,…

Foam stripes again…

February 7, 2017

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

Those foam stripes parallel to the coast — again!

December 22, 2016

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…

Foam stripes parallel to the coast.

June 2, 2016

On my way to Heligoland the other day I noticed a phenomenon that I found really intriguing and that I should probably be able to explain. I first saw it on…

Waves on Aasee in Münster. By Mirjam S. Glessmer

More wave phenomena on a lake, and a bit about wind

March 22, 2016

Last week I showed you the results of my “wave hunt expedition” on Aasee in Münster. Today, I am following up with the same lake on the day after and…

Attempt at mechanistic understanding of Langmuir circulation. After complaining about how I didn’t have mechanistic understanding of Langmuir circulation recently, and how I was too lazy to do a real literature…