'the butterfly effect'
this water wheel is a simple system that demonstrates chaos theory. As it spins seemingly randomly left and right, its center of mass (orange) traces out a butterfly wing pattern
👍🏽 nice to see the ESA #Climate Change Initiative’s fully validated and uncertainty characterised ocean colour data product put to good use #Oceanography
Fluid envelope of the planet is most profoundly affected by the Coriolis force & has a dominant influence on the global circulation. here i m showing simulated gravity wave propagation giving guassin perturbation #internalwave#oceanwave#oceanography#ocean@AcademicChatter
Did you know?
1. The Arctic is shrinking.
2. The Sahara is expanding.
3. The Ocean is overheating.
4. The Forests are vanishing.
5. The Seabed is disintegrating.
6. The Atmosphere now has the highest levels of CO₂ in more than 20 million years.
None of this is front page news.
Being the warmest among the major oceans, the Indian ocean is warming consistently for last 50 years, affecting rainfall,primary productivity etc., also playing critical role in regulating mean climate.
#ShowYourStripes#climatechange#indianocean#GlobalWarming#ocean
1/25 Part 1 - Why does soap work so well on the SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? Because it is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. A two part thread about soap, viruses and supramolecular chemistry #COVID19
The most important sea life. The beautiful and varied plankton in a winter plankton sample. The myriad, microscopic and strange-looking lifeforms that begin the marine food chain. @zeiss_micro.