“As a consequence, the resulting Gulf Stream is a strong ocean current. It transports water at a rate of 30 million cubic metres per second (30 sverdrups) through the Florida Straits. As it passes south of Newfoundland, this rate increases to 150 sverdrups.”
“In oceanography, the sverdrup (symbol: Sv) is a non-SI metric unit of volumetric flow rate, with 1 Sv equal to 1 million cubic metres per second (264,172,052 US gal/s).”
"During 33 expeditions with the research vessel E. W. Scripps between 1938 and 1941, Harald Sverdrup produced a detailed oceanographic dataset off the coast of California. He also developed a simple theory of the general ocean circulation postulating a dynamical vorticity balance between the wind-stress curl and the meridional gradient of the Coriolis parameter, the Sverdrup balance. This balance describes wind-driven ocean gyres away from continental margins at western boundaries."
Ugh, I should learn this physics! I never achieved my goal of learning meteorology and climate science.
@EverydayMoggie No, I just looked up those articles a few minutes ago because Sabine Hossenfelder was complaining about journalists confusing the Gulf Stream and the AMOC.
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