Given a twirl

Heike Langenberg

Nature, 2000, vol. 405, issue 6789, 901-901

Abstract: How small-scale (10–25-km diameter) spiral structures are created on the sea surface is poorly understood. From a study of 400 photographs of such spirals taken from space, it seems that turbulence generated at the boundary of two water masses in relative motion is often the driving force.

Date: 2000
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