laser – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

What are we actually trying to measure in our rotating swimming pool?

mglessmer — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:42:02 +0000

You’ve heard us talk a lot about rotating swimming pools. Nadine has written about why we care about Antarctic ice shelf melting (link), why the ice shelf is melting (link) and how we are going to investigate it (link). Today, I am going to bring those explanations together with all that you’ve seen so far […]

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We have water in our rotating tank! Now testing the lasers

mglessmer — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:30:03 +0000

Above you see the very first water coming into our tank. Only a couple of hours, and the tank was full! And in solid body rotation (since it has been spinning all the time while being filled) which means that we can start doing the real experiments very soon! :-) Most of the afternoon has been spent testing the […]

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