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Oceanography examples

One executed example per breakthrough in Breakthroughs in Oceanography, in chronological order, each with an asserted check of the result it shows. Download the Python source or notebook from each page. Oceanography: units, equations and validation records units and limits; all examples use deterministic synthetic inputs and require no downloads.

Newton’s equilibrium tide (1687)

Newton's equilibrium tide (1687)

Laplace’s tidal equations (1776)

Laplace's tidal equations (1776)

Gerstner’s trochoidal wave (1802)

Gerstner's trochoidal wave (1802)

Stokes’s deep-water waves (1847)

Stokes's deep-water waves (1847)

The Challenger soundings (1872)

The Challenger soundings (1872)

Knudsen’s equation of state (1901)

Knudsen's equation of state (1901)

Sandström and Helland-Hansen’s dynamic method (1903)

Sandström and Helland-Hansen's dynamic method (1903)

Ekman’s dead water (1904)

Ekman's dead water (1904)

Ekman’s spiral (1905)

Ekman's spiral (1905)

Gustafson and Kullenberg’s inertial oscillations (1936)

Gustafson and Kullenberg's inertial oscillations (1936)

Rossby’s adjustment radius (1938)

Rossby's adjustment radius (1938)

Sverdrup’s balance (1947)

Sverdrup's balance (1947)

Stommel’s western intensification (1948)

Stommel's western intensification (1948)

Stommel’s two-box thermohaline circulation (1961)

Stommel's two-box thermohaline circulation (1961)

Munk’s abyssal recipes (1966)

Munk's abyssal recipes (1966)

TEOS-10 (2010)

TEOS-10 (2010)