Does that warning sign above (that I showed as a teaser in yesterday’s post on wave watching in and around Arnside) make you as curious as it made me? Usually,…
Looking at the picture above, taken in the South Walney Island Nature Reserve on our walk yesterday, what is the first thing you notice? For me, it is not the…
Another thing I can’t stop being fascinated by: Tides. Sometimes you look towards Hastings Pier, and there is water all the way up to the sea wall. Those are the…
Disclaimer: This post might well be called “fun with tides” similar to Sheldon Cooper’s “fun with flags” — it is super nerdy, but at least I am having fun! There…
For most of my readers it might be pretty obvious what the movement of floating ice says about the flow field “below”, but most “normal” people would probably not even notice that…
A very simple experiment to show how waves can travel around an ocean basin. I wrote these instructions for a book project that I was lucky enough to get involved…
A first attempt where gravity (due to a tilted axis of rotation) replaces the pull of the moon. (deutscher Text unten) The movie contains both a view from a co-rotating…
Watching the strongest tidal current in the world. Together with my friend P, I went to see the strongest tidal current in the world more than two years ago. And…
Instruction for a very simple DIY tidal model. Today, we built a very simple DIY tidal model in class. It consists of two sets of tidal bulges: One locked in…