Swirl water in a cup, and the water will move to the outer edge of the cup. Sometimes, when you swirl hard enough, it will actually start “climbing” the walls of the cup, as the water collects at the ...

(TNS) -- Imagine what’s known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and what comes to mind are floating bottles, flip flops and coolers blown about by wind and currents. In reality, the patch, and ...

A Swedish physicist called V. Walfrid Ekman has come back to haunt the Illawarra's early morning swimmers, with the ocean effect that takes his name making summer seem a long time gone.

image: What makes ships mysteriously slow down or even stop as they travel, even though their engines are working properly? This was first observed in 1893 and was described experimentally in 1904 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. You bolt down to the azure ocean across a scorching Sahara of sand and plunge in only to experience near defibrillation and hypothermia ...

Explaining Vagn Walfrid Ekman’s theory of currents. Research shows storms that might have caused minimal damage a few decades ago are becoming stronger and more destructive as the planet warms. Get up ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Sunshine Coast. Followed categories will be added to My News. The squeeze between a low pressure system in the Tasman and a high over South Australia generated ...

Diurnal amplitude estimates of CCMP 6-hourly wind speed (m s −1) based on data from 2010–2019 during (A) December to January (DJ) and (B) July to August (JA). Vertical profiles of hydrographic ...