Topographic Rossby wave – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Topographic Rossby waves in a tank

mglessmer — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:29:59 +0000

This experiment just doesn’t want to be filmed by me. Even though I spent more time on preparation of this experiment than on almost any other experiment I have ever done! I have written up the theory behind this experiment, run it with a blob of dye to visualize the wave, then with a ring of dye. […]

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Topographic Rossby wave

mglessmer — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 05:05:51 +0000

Next attempt at the topographic Rossby wave! This time with following the geosci.uchicago.edu instructions more closely… …and then the tank had hickups, so we did get waves, but a lot more diffusive than we had hoped, because the tank slowed down a lot more and in a more bumpy fashion than I had planned… Setup of […]

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Topographic Rossby wave

mglessmer — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 19:16:59 +0000

Finally trying the topographic Rossby wave experiment I wrote about theoretically here! And it is working — ok-ish. If you know what you are looking for, you can kind of see it. So check out the picture above so you know what you expect to see below ;-) We are rotating the tank fairly rapidly […]

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