Introduction to Physical Oceanography
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Introduction to Physical Oceanography

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Environmental Fluid Mechanics

thermal wind experiment

baroclinic instability

ocean gyre experiment

(from MIT’s weather in a tank)

ocean surface current from drifters (Marshall and Plumb 2007)

In what sense does the experiment represent the major features of the observed ocean gyre circulation ?