Excellent explanation of the Ekman Spiral. I sought out this video in response to reading Helen Czerski's great book, The Blue Machine: how the ocean works.
More than helpful.. Such an amazing and simple explanation. Saying " Thank you" is not enough. I just wanna say, "Sir, please keep it up". Love from Bangladesh ❤️ wishing you all the best. ❤️
Very well explained and animated! The 3D animation using the small watercolumn to show the vectors was something else and the best way of explaining it i've seen so far! You probably helped me pass my exam! Keep up the good work!
Fantastic video... I've had difficulty teaching these concepts to my high school students (in my Marine Science class) in the past. This year, I showed your video in addition to my "Coastal Upwelling Lecture," and I had a significantly higher number of "nodding heads" and "oh, that's how it works" remarks on Zoom. Thank you for this content!
I can't find words to praise the lucidity and ease with which you have explained the topic. I don't think i will ever be confused about Ekman spiral all my life. Thank you very much.
Hey man keep on making videos like these! They're extremely helpful and the concepts are very well explained. The animation also really helped a lot. Great work!
Very helpful! Great great thanks and appraisal for the great work. It cleared quiet a variety of concepts and major creek points of related concepts in such a short span, that's really impressive and relieving. I am just helped by another vedio of yours. I loved and subscribed this channel( & liked too).
Great lesson, thank you so much! I have a question I hope you might help. Given the sinking of the North Atlantic surface waters is harrowingly slowing down due to the larger presence of less salty water due to the melting of the polar caps, and the potential effect it may have of breaking the ocean conveyor belt and bring dramatic climatic changes with it, could it be possible that these open ocean downwelling and upwelling regions become the sole sources of deep and surface water exchanges, trapping even more heat along the intertropical region and transporting even less heat to the higher latitudes?
im a little confused as to why the coriolis effect is acting in the opposite direction to the wind? I can understand it acting 90 degrees clockwise of a north or south-bound wind (Horthern hemisphere) but in no way should it be acting in the opposite direction to the wind unless you have a south-bound wind across equatorial water? Unfortunately I've only noticed i don't understand this part the day before an exam so hopefully it doesn't effect my answer, but id love to have someone clarify this for the sake of improving my understanding. Thanks
Treat the ocean as a layered structure. The energy transfer from the wind to the surface is the first of multiple energy transfers. Each transfer of frictional energy between layers is subject to Coriolis deflection. Consider a wind blowing from the east (towards the west) in the Northern hemisphere. When this wind transfers energy to the top-most water layer, the top layer will begin to move to the right of the wind - towards the southwest. When this top layer - which is moving towards the southwest - transfers energy to the next layer down that next layer will deflect further to the right. More southward in this case. As the energy transfers to deeper layers, each layer deflects further to the right - creating the Ekman spiral.
It is due to the way Coriolis deflection works. To the right north of the equator and to left south of the equator. Take a look at this video for more: th-cam.com/video/l1ddKqMvPg0/w-d-xo.html
Wind itself gets deflected at some angle due to coriolis effect If surface water and net water movement (90') also get deflected as explained by ekman The direction of ocean currents should be sharp easterly??
Hi! I hope it's okay that I borrowed pictures of your upwelling and downwelling animations for my presentation in oceanography and waves. I'm a maritime student, so this was REALLY helpful!
Way better explained than my georgraphy professer at my local university, thank you
The animation made the concept crystal clear.
And upwelling and downwelling, explained in simple words.
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Excellent explanation of the Ekman Spiral. I sought out this video in response to reading Helen Czerski's great book, The Blue Machine: how the ocean works.
More than helpful..
Such an amazing and simple explanation. Saying " Thank you" is not enough. I just wanna say, "Sir, please keep it up".
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Thank you so much, I'm writing my master's thesis on this topic, and your video helped me a lot to understand the upwelling dynamics simply.
Thank you. You made it super simple to understand
Very well explained and animated!
The 3D animation using the small watercolumn to show the vectors was something else and the best way of explaining it i've seen so far!
You probably helped me pass my exam!
Keep up the good work!
This video was so helpful. You managed to explain everything in 4 minutes and the information was crystal clear! THANKS
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Fantastic video... I've had difficulty teaching these concepts to my high school students (in my Marine Science class) in the past. This year, I showed your video in addition to my "Coastal Upwelling Lecture," and I had a significantly higher number of "nodding heads" and "oh, that's how it works" remarks on Zoom. Thank you for this content!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the comment.
I can't find words to praise the lucidity and ease with which you have explained the topic. I don't think i will ever be confused about Ekman spiral all my life.
Thank you very much.
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Very Helpful, taught the concept in an easy to understand way, thank you!
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The best way to explain Ekman Transport! thank you!
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I just learnt ekman spiral, transport, upwelling, downwelling all in under 5 minutes! 🤯 Thank you for the incredibly helpful video! Great job
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Thanks for this video, we learnt it on mechanics (physics), and it became much more understandable!
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Glad you enjoyed it. It is a fun expression of the Coriolis Effect.
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thank you sir, this is a very well explained video, from India
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Hey man keep on making videos like these! They're extremely helpful and the concepts are very well explained. The animation also really helped a lot. Great work!
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When my struggle to understand this topic made easy by you, thank you sir. Regards
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Such a great explanation, and how brilliant Ekman was to come up with this!
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great stuff! only why did you swap north and south when explaining ekman spirals? :)
Very helpful! Great great thanks and appraisal for the great work. It cleared quiet a variety of concepts and major creek points of related concepts in such a short span, that's really impressive and relieving. I am just helped by another vedio of yours. I loved and subscribed this channel( & liked too).
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Yes! Finally! A good Ekman spiral explanation video!!! :)
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Great lesson, thank you so much! I have a question I hope you might help. Given the sinking of the North Atlantic surface waters is harrowingly slowing down due to the larger presence of less salty water due to the melting of the polar caps, and the potential effect it may have of breaking the ocean conveyor belt and bring dramatic climatic changes with it, could it be possible that these open ocean downwelling and upwelling regions become the sole sources of deep and surface water exchanges, trapping even more heat along the intertropical region and transporting even less heat to the higher latitudes?
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im a little confused as to why the coriolis effect is acting in the opposite direction to the wind? I can understand it acting 90 degrees clockwise of a north or south-bound wind (Horthern hemisphere) but in no way should it be acting in the opposite direction to the wind unless you have a south-bound wind across equatorial water? Unfortunately I've only noticed i don't understand this part the day before an exam so hopefully it doesn't effect my answer, but id love to have someone clarify this for the sake of improving my understanding. Thanks
informative, thanks.
You're welcome
Hi thanks ofr the video! Very helpful, I would like to see a video of ekman number.
How is it that the prevailing winds cause an upwelling at the equator. There isn't a Coriolis force at the equator so how is there Ekman's transport?
Coriolis is only zero right at the equator. It is weak, but present just north and south of the equator and this is enough to cause Ekman transport.
Thank you sir from India
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nicely explained thank you :)
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Sir I have a question here-why it took spiral shape,why bottom layers of the water deflets more than the upper one?(best explanation though,thank you)
Treat the ocean as a layered structure. The energy transfer from the wind to the surface is the first of multiple energy transfers. Each transfer of frictional energy between layers is subject to Coriolis deflection.
Consider a wind blowing from the east (towards the west) in the Northern hemisphere. When this wind transfers energy to the top-most water layer, the top layer will begin to move to the right of the wind - towards the southwest. When this top layer - which is moving towards the southwest - transfers energy to the next layer down that next layer will deflect further to the right. More southward in this case. As the energy transfers to deeper layers, each layer deflects further to the right - creating the Ekman spiral.
So much helpfull thanks
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one question. Why in the southern hemisphere ekman's transport is on the left side instead of right side like in the northern hemisphere?
It is due to the way Coriolis deflection works. To the right north of the equator and to left south of the equator. Take a look at this video for more: th-cam.com/video/l1ddKqMvPg0/w-d-xo.html
How can we determine high and low pressure zones with the understanding of the geostrophic current and the direction of Ekman transport?
Have you watched the video on geostrophic flow: th-cam.com/video/LWZEIVpuRxw/w-d-xo.html
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what is Ekman spin up and spin down?
Wind itself gets deflected at some angle due to coriolis effect
If surface water and net water movement (90') also get deflected as explained by ekman
The direction of ocean currents should be sharp easterly??
I am not quite sure what you are asking. Both the wind and water currents are influenced by Coriolis.
Good stuff
Hi! I hope it's okay that I borrowed pictures of your upwelling and downwelling animations for my presentation in oceanography and waves. I'm a maritime student, so this was REALLY helpful!
Go ahead, but please give credit and link back to the source if possible. Glad the animations were helpful.
@@SciencePrimer I didn't include your name, but I linked the video to my whole class (40 ppl) and they appreciate it very much!
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