The Sverdrup: The Non-SI Unit of Large-Scale Volume Transport over the Globe

Autor/in	Agrawal, Dulli Chandra
Titel	The Sverdrup: The Non-SI Unit of Large-Scale Volume Transport over the Globe
Quelle	In: Physics Teacher, 56 (2018) 6, S.377-379 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-921X
Schlagwörter	Oceanography; Meteorology; Physics; Water; Scientific Concepts; Science Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ozeanografie; Meteorologie; Physik; Wasser; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
Abstract	The non-SI unit sverdrup, named to honor Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888-1957), is adopted for quantifying large-scale volume transport by oceanographers, meteorologists, and atmospheric physicists. The sverdrup is used to appraise the volumetric rate of evaporation, precipitation, runoff, transport of ocean current, and so on. Its symbol is Sv, which should not be confused with the SI unit sievert and the non-SI unit svedberg, both having the same symbol. One sverdrup is equivalent to volume transport of one million cubic meters per second. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the numbers associated with water transport over the globe in this unit. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01