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The Experiments

• GFD0: Rotation stiffens fluids
• GFDI: Cloud formation
• GFDII: Convection
• GFDIII: Radial inflow
• GFDIV: Parabolic table
• GFDV: Inertial Circles
• GFDVI: Perrot's bathtub experiment
• GFDVII: Taylor Columns
• GFDVIII: Thermal Wind and Hadley Circulation
• GFDIX: Slope of a frontal surface
• GFDX: Ekman layers
• GFDXI: Atmospheric General circulation
• GFDXII: Ekman pumping and suction
• GFDXIII: Ocean gyres
• GFDXIV: Thermohaline Circulation
• GFDXV: Source sink flow in a rotating basin

GFD 0: Rotating fluids have weird properties

Taylor Columns revealed by food coloring in a rotating tank

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GFD I: Cloud formation

Cloud formation on adiabatic expansion

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GFD II: Convection

Convection due to heating from below

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GFD III: Radial inflow

Radial inflow

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GFD IV: Parabolic table

Parabolic table

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GFD V: Inertial Circles

Visualizing the Coriolis effect

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GFD VI: Perrot's bathtub experiment

Experiment on Earth's rotation

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GFD VII: Taylor Columns

Taylor Columns over a bump

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GFD VIII: Thermal Wind and Hadley Circulation

Thermal wind and the Hadley circulation

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GFD IX: Fronts

Slope of a frontal surface

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GFD X: Ekman layers

 

Spin down of a cyclone

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GFD XI: General circulation

 

General circulation of the atmosphere

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GFD XII: Stress-driven circulation and Ekman layers

 

Stress-driven flow

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GFD XIII: Wind-driven circulation ocean circulation

Ocean gyres

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GFD XIV: Thermohaline circulation

Stommel-Arons

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GFD XV: Source sink flow in a rotating basin

Abyssal flow

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