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n. A unit of measure of volume transport, used in oceanography.
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The sverdrup, named in honour of the pioneering oceanographer Harald Sverdrup, is a non- SI unit of volume transport. It is used almost exclusively in oceanography to measure the volumetric rate of transport of ocean currents. Its symbol is Sv.
It should not be confused with SI unit sievert or the non-SI svedberg, which use the same symbol.
It is equivalent to . The entire global input of fresh water from rivers to the ocean is equal to about 1.2 sverdrup.
The water transport in the Gulf Stream gradually increases from 30 Sv in the Florida Current to a maximum of 150 Sv south of Newfoundland at 55°W longitude. The heat carried within this volume equals roughly that transported through the atmosphere to make the relatively milder climate of north-western Europe. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, at approximately 125 Sverdrups, is the largest ocean current.
Several people share the family name Sverdrup:
- Einar Sverdrup (1895–1942), a Norwegian mining engineer and businessman
- Erling Sverdrup (1917–1994), a Norwegian statistician
- Georg Sverdrup (1770–1850), founder of the first Norwegian university library
- Georg Sverdrup (1848–1907), President of Augsburg Seminary
- George Sverdrup, son of Georg, also president of Augsburg Seminary from 1911 to 1937
- George Sverdrup, technology manager of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1813–1891), a Norwegian priest and politician
- Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888–1957), a Norwegian oceanographer grandson of the previous one
- Harald Sverdrup (1923–1992), a Norwegian writer and poet
- Johan Sverdrup (1816–1892), prime minister of Norway
- Keith Sverdrup, Geophysicist
- Leif J. Sverdrup (1898–1976), a Norwegian-American civil engineer
- Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1854–1930), a Norwegian explorer
Named for these:
- Sverdrup, a unit of volume flux
- Sverdrup balance, an oceanographic theory
- Sverdrup Pass, a pass on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
- Sverdrup Islands, Arctic islands
- Sverdrup Island, another Arctic island
- Sverdrup, a lunar crater near the Moon's south pole
- Sverdrup Township, Minnesota
Sverdrup is a lunar crater that is located about one crater diameter from the southern pole of the Moon. It lies on the far side of the Moon with respect to the Earth, in an area of the surface that is only illuminated by very oblique light from the Sun. The interior part of the crater is cloaked in perpetual darkness, and thus has not been mapped using photography. Portions of the rim are illuminated, however, and give the appearance of a worn formation that has been intruded upon by adjacent formations.
The nearest craters of note to Sverdrup are de Gerlache to the east, and Shackleton at the south pole.
Usage examples of "sverdrup".
When Otto Sverdrup was to use the Fram for his Polar expedition, he had a number of alterations carried out.
After the Fram returned in 1902 from her second expedition under Captain Sverdrup, she was sent down to Horten to be laid up in the Naval Dockyard.
Not long after the vessel had arrived at the dockyard, Captain Sverdrup proposed various repairs and alterations.
A book, to Will Sverdrup, was a treasure, even with crumbling pages and water-stained covers.
That made him different from the Will Sverdrup of the twenty-first century.
My name is Will Sverdrup, I come from Earth in the twenty-first century.