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A fun side note, the Western Boundary Time Series project is a neat bit of physics: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/wbts/ https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/wbts/ O
by chris_va 3y ago
A fun side note, the Western Boundary Time Series project is a neat bit of physics:
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/wbts/ https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/wbts/
One can measure the rate of flow of seawater (about ~30Sv, or 30 million cubic meters per second!) by the potential induced on salt ions from moving through the earth's magnetic field on a old abandoned telegraph cable between Florida and the Bahamas.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL105170 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...
(TLDR, it's dropping about 1% per decade currently)