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Guest Student Alessandro Ramoni conducting a "fjord" experiment.

Guest Student Alessandro Ramoni conducting a "fjord" experiment.
Guest Student Alessandro Ramoni conducting a "fjord" experiment.
Guest Student Alessandro Ramoni conducting a "fjord" experiment.
Guest Student Alessandro Ramoni conducting a "fjord" experiment.
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Kleindinst, Thomas N.
Guest Student Alessandro Ramoni conducting a "fjord" experiment.
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04/22/2010
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Guest Student Alessandro Ramoni, receipient of the "Gori Foundation Fellowship" in the Spring 2010, conducting a "fjord" experiment in collaboration with Drs. Claudia Cenedese and Fiammetta Straneo to investigate the effect of the circulation in a deep fjord on the melting rate of a glacier. Red lines of Potassium Permanganate are used to determine the intensity and direction of the circulation in the two layers (top: white and bottom: yellow) in the channel representing a fjord.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 48, No. 2, Pg. 40:
A FJORD IN A BOX—
Alessandro Ramoni, a guest student from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” conducts a “fjord experiment” in the WHOI Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Ramoni worked with WHOI physical oceanographers Claudia Cenedese and Fiammetta Straneo to study how seawater circulation affects the melting rate of glaciers that empty into fjords. In the test tank, clear and yellow-dyed water represents different water layers in a fjord. A red dye solution shows the direction and intensity of water flow.
Photo by Tom Kleindinst
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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