• Harald Sverdrup may refer to: Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer) (Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, 1888–1957), Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist Harald Ulrik...
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    Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (15 November 1888 – 21 August 1957) was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist. He served as director of the Scripps Institution...
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    volumetric rate of transport of ocean currents. It is named after Harald Sverdrup. One sverdrup is about five times what is carried by the world’s largest river...
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    Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (29 May 1923 – 26 June 1992) was a Norwegian poet and children's writer. He received several literary prizes, including the Norwegian...
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  • previous one Harald Sverdrup (writer) (1923–1992), Norwegian writer and poet Johan Sverdrup (1816–1892), prime minister of Norway Leif J. Sverdrup (1898–1976)...
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    Norwegian research activity in eastern Greenland increased. With Harald Sverdrup as the first director, the NPI's mandate included Antarctica and was...
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    mechanism that helps maintain the vortex balance along an ocean gyre. Harald Sverdrup was the first one, preceding Henry Stommel, to attempt to explain the...
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    cubic hectometer per second (symbol: hm3/s or hm3⋅s−1). Named after Harald Sverdrup, it is used almost exclusively in oceanography to measure the volumetric...
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  • politician Harald Petersen (1893–1970), Danish politician Harald Sandberg (born 1950), Swedish diplomat Harald Sverdrup (disambiguation) Harald Hilding Markurell...
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  • Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (18 February 1813 – 23 April 1891) was a Norwegian priest and politician who was a member of Parliament and mayor of Balestrand...
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  • therefore in seawater density, and (2) wind forcing. In the 1940s, when Harald Sverdrup was thinking about calculating the gross features of ocean circulation...
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  • Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (16 or 17 December 1846 – 1 April 1916) was a Norwegian engineer. Sverdrup was born at the farm Rise in Sem as a son of Peter Jacob...
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    awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal by the National Academy of Sciences. Harald Sverdrup would be awarded the medal 3 years later, beginning a long history...
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  • Gennady Olonkin Elg Elgesem as Olav Bjaaland Torgny Gerhard Aanderaa as Harald Sverdrup Geoffrey Kirkness as Charles Bennett David Bark-Jones as Robert Falcon...
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    first cousin twice removed of Harald Ulrik and Johan Sverdrup, second cousin once removed of Jakob, Georg and Edvard Sverdrup, third cousin of Georg Johan...
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  • Past Norway Scholars have included Nordahl Grieg, Peter A. Munch and Harald Sverdrup. The idea for a scholarship fund enabling students from Royal Frederik...
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    more material for academic research, and he carried the geophysicist Harald Sverdrup on board. The voyage was to the northeasterly direction over the Kara...
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  • (S or Sv), sedimentation rate – Theodor Svedberg sverdrup (Sv), volume transport rate – Harald Sverdrup torr (Torr), pressure – Evangelista Torricelli troland...
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    geostrophic flow. Harald Sverdrup applied Ekman transport while including pressure gradient forces to develop a theory for Sverdrup transport. The Kuroshio...
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  • Sverdrup (22 July 1886 – 24 January 1964) was a Norwegian naval officer and politician. He was born in Christiania to engineer Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and...
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  • sensible heat and latent heating respectively. The ratio was named by Harald Sverdrup after Ira Sprague Bowen (1898–1973), an astrophysicist whose theoretical...
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    and politician Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, a grandnephew of Johan Sverdrup, a nephew of politician Jakob Sverdrup and theologian Georg Sverdrup, a half-brother...
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  • Johan Sverdrup (1885–1951). He was a nephew of philologist Jakob Sverdrup, a first cousin once removed of Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and Leif Sverdrup, a grandson...
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    grandfather of Jakob Sverdrup, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Jr, Georg Sverdrup and Edvard Sverdrup. Through his daughter Livia Sverdrup he was a grandfather...
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    ship is named after the Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888–1957). The ship was built in 1990 by Simek AS. It is certified...
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  • Rokkan, sociology and political science Gunnar Skirbekk, philosophy Harald Sverdrup, oceanographer and meteorologist Sigve Tjøtta, mathematics The university...
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    Georg Sverdrup was born in the fishing village of Laugen in Nærøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. He was the uncle of brothers Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, who served...
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  • poets, such as Astrid Hjertenæs Andersen, Paal Brekke, Hans Børli, Harald Sverdrup and Marie Takvam, free verse was the preferred form. Paal Brekke was...
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    Bjerke, Jens Bjørneboe, Arne Garborg, Knut Hamsun, Johan Falkberget, Harald Sverdrup and Ole Paus. His church music works include O Magnum Mysterium and...
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    adiabatic pathways along density isopycnals, which was already written by Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer). The lower cell is driven by freshwater fluxes where...
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