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    Vagn Walfrid Ekman (3 May 1874 – 9 March 1954) was a Swedish oceanographer. Born in Stockholm to Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, himself an oceanographer, he...
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  • being Vagn Ekman (1874-1954), a Swedish oceanographer. The name became popular in Denmark during the 1920s and 1930s. Other people called Vagn include:...
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    Ekman transport is part of Ekman motion theory, first investigated in 1902 by Vagn Walfrid Ekman. Winds are the main source of energy for ocean circulation...
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  • oceanographer Vagn Walfrid Ekman. When the Ekman number is small, disturbances are able to propagate before decaying owing to low frictional effects. The Ekman number...
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  • Sheldon V. Ekman (1920–1982), United States Tax Court judge Sven P. Ekman (1876–1964), Swedish zoologist Ulf Ekman (born 1950), Swedish clergyman Vagn Walfrid...
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    was first described by Vagn Walfrid Ekman. Ekman layers occur both in the atmosphere and in the ocean. There are two types of Ekman layers. The first type...
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    oceanographer Vagn Walfrid Ekman, was the first person to physically explain this process. In order to derive the properties of an Ekman spiral a look...
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    Bjerknes had his student, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, investigate. Ekman, who later described the effect now bearing his name as the Ekman spiral, demonstrated the...
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  • the Ekman velocity to develop before it is directed at right angles to the wind. The Ekman velocity is named after the Swedish oceanographer Vagn Walfrid...
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    The Ekman current meter is a mechanical flowmeter invented by Vagn Walfrid Ekman, a Swedish oceanographer, in 1903. It comprises a propeller with a mechanism...
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    sampling by Geophysic institut of the University of Bergen (Norway) Oceanography Vagn Walfrid Ekman Ekman spiral Ekman current meter Nansen bottle v t e...
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  • into subsurface motion. The Ekman Spiral, named after Vagn Walfrid Ekman, is the standard for this transfer of energy. The Ekman Spiral works as follows:...
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  • force Ekman layer Ekman number Ekman spiral Ekman transport Ekman velocity Fridtjof Nansen Nansen's Fram expedition Upwelling Vagn Walfrid Ekman David...
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  • Bibcode:1990JPO....20.1742T. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1990)020<1742:TMACIG>2.0.CO;2. Ekman, Vagn Walfrid (1905). "On the influence of the earth's rotation on ocean-currents"...
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  • Albert Defant 1937: Roy Chapman Andrews 1939: Vilhelm Bjerknes 1939: Vagn W. Ekman 1941: Bjørn Helland-Hansen 1941: Hans W. Ahlmann 1944: Lennart von Post...
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  • was named Fram, were used by Vagn Walfrid Ekman to develop the theory of the turning of surface flow with friction (the Ekman spiral). The Cold War acted...
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  • Born: Bobby Sands, Irish republican hunger striker (d. 1981) Died: Vagn Walfrid Ekman, 79, Swedish oceanographer Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, 41, German astronomer...
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  • (1873–1954) E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956) Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874–1915) Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874–1954) Hans Reissner (1874–1967) Max Abraham (1875–1922) Louis...
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  • thermocline shoaling does not lead to further SST cooling". Wind stress Vagn Walfrid Ekman Harald Sverdrup Jin, Fei-Fei (1997). "An Equatorial Ocean Recharge...
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  • French businessman and publisher, founded Coty (d. 1934) 1874 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (d. 1954) 1877 – Karl Abraham...
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