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Sverdrup balance
Summary
- Harald Sverdrup in 1947 proposed a theory of ocean circulation and derived a relationship between the wind forcing (expressed as the curl of the wind stress) and the mass transport of the upper ocean. This relationship is known as the Sverdrup balance.
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Metaphone: SFRTRPBLNS
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