COSEE Ocean Systems: News
As the World Turns and the Oceans Flow
Description: In the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) Laboratory at WHOI, Jack Whitehead sets up experiments using real materials: water, salt, wax. He puts water-filled plastic containers, representing oceans, on spinning turntables that simulate Earth's rotation. "I explore the basic principles of how fluids move on the dynamic Earth," said Whitehead, summarizing his four decades of research. [Source: Oceanus - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute]
URL: http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=55486
Availability: Full Text
Source: Oceanus - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Publish Date: 2/20/2009
Reading Level: Basic
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