Sverdrup
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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
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Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist. He served as director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Norwegian Polar Institute.
Sverdrup
…hm3/s or hm3⋅s−1). It is used almost exclusively in oceanography to measure the volumetric rate of transport of ocean currents. It is named after Harald Sverdrup. One sverdrup is about five times what is carried at the estuary by the world's largest river, the Amazon. In the context of ocean currents, a volume…
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Alvin
MS H.U. Sverdrup II research vessel