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Sverdrup balance

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Sverdrup balance equates meridional advection of planetary vorticity to wind-stress curl in the weakly frictional ocean interior.

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The Sverdrup balance is a fundamental concept in oceanography that describes the relationship between the wind-driven circulation of the ocean and the resulting geostrophic flow. It is named after the Norwegian oceanographer Fridtjof Nansen Sverdrup.
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