Watching the ocean’s ebb and flow may be soothing, but the history of the sverdrup unit for ocean flow is more turbulent. Tor Eldevik and Peter Mosby Haugan recount an oceanographic journey reaching high tide with Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and his unit.
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Eldevik, T., Haugan, P.M. That’s a lot of water. Nat. Phys. 16, 496 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0866-0
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