Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist. He served as director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Norwegian Polar Institute.
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Alvin
MS H.U. Sverdrup II research vessel
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In oceanography, the sverdrup is a non-SI metric unit of volumetric flow rate, with 1 Sv equal to 1 million cubic meters per second, or equivalently 1 cubic hectometer per second. It is used almost ex
Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer)
…of the Royal Geographical Society, the Vega Medal by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography and the Swedish Order of the Polar Star. The Sverdrup, a unit describing the volume of water transport in ocean currents, is named after Harald Sverdrup. 1 Sverdrup is a volume flux of one million cubic…
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