Turbulence
the chaotic, irregular, and erratic movement of water in the ocean
What is turbulence?
what is 70%
the number of people who can fit in the mouth of a blue whale
what is 100 people?
large rings of swirling and mixing ocean currents
what is macroturbulence
how much stronger is the pressure at the bottom of the ocean than at sea level?
what is 500x?
the childrens show about the ocean and ocean life in a submarine!
who are the octonauts?
the chemical principal that dictates why water retains heat better than the atmosphere
what is heat capacity?
the circular movement of water caused by temperature differences
what is a convection current
the number of levels of precision that were demonstrated for ocean simulation
the two main causes of global ocean rise
what are warning water and melting ice caps
the percent of earth's heat energy stored in the oceans
what is 93%
the reason why wind patterns occur (via rotation)
what is the Coriolis effect?
the large ocean current carrying warm water from the carribean sea north towards the british isles
what is the gulf stream?
the type of AI used to connect large groups of water-related data
what is a neural network
the depth of the ocean that contains as much heat as the entire atmosphere
what is 3m?
what college in the US did Laure Zanna study at?
what is Harvard university?
the type of microturbulence that occurs vertically through density gradients
what are internal wave breakings?
the time it takes for a 4,671 core processor to run a traditional 100-day water simulation
what is 8 days
the NYC park where sea level rise was documented in the videos
Battery Park
the depth of the ocean that contains as much carbon as the entire atmosphere
what is 50m
the level of scale for intermediate weather patterns like storms
what is mesoscale?