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Arctic currents flow simulation.

Arctic currents flow simulation.
Arctic currents flow simulation.
Arctic currents flow simulation.
Arctic currents flow simulation.
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Cook, John E.
Arctic currents flow simulation.
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05/09/2008
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 46, No. 2, Pg. 29:
A Claudia Cenedese laboratory experiment simulates fluid dynamics that occur in the Arctic Ocean. The "box" rotates as the Earth does, and relatively fresh water forms a coastal current that hugs--and flows between--plastic "coastlines" representing Canada and Greenland. The dye lets scientists visualize and photograph the fluid behavior.
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Claudia Cenedese, scientist in the WHOI physical oceanography department, studies how water in the ocean moves. But she does it inside the box--by doing laboratory experiments that simulate oceans in their basins with a water-filled box that rotates as the Earth does. The diagrammed experiment traces the flow of relatively fresh water past Canada and Greenland in the Arctic Ocean. Dye in the less-salty water makes it visible as it hugs the plastic "coastlines," so images of the flow can be recorded.
Illustration by Jack Cook
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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