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Why do we need a rotating tank to study ocean and atmosphere dynamics? A demonstration

August 13, 2019

For our project “Ocean currents in a tank: From dry theory to juicy reality“, Torge, Joke and I are working on building affordable rotating tanks to use in Torge’s Bachelor…

Need your help! “Wish list” for a student lab for tank experiments?

January 5, 2019

I’d love your input: If your student lab for GFD tank experiments had to downsize, but you had to present a “wish list” for a smaller replacement, what would be…

Getting rid of bubbles in our jet

September 12, 2017

Sometimes the devil is in the details… On our first day at the Coriolis platform in Grenoble, I took a picture of the “source” in our experiments (see above): The plastic…

Hadley cell circulation – slow rotation

August 28, 2014

In order to not be in the eddying regime, this time we are rotating our tank as slowly as possible. Since we ran the Hadley cell experiment the other day,…

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Why do we need a rotating tank to study ocean and atmosphere dynamics? A demonstration

Need your help! “Wish list” for a student lab for tank experiments?

Getting rid of bubbles in our jet

Hadley cell circulation – slow rotation

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