Weather in a Tank – A Laboratory Guide to Rotating Tank Fluid ...
This website is a laboratory guide that helps students explore how rotating fluid experiments, together with observations of real world phenomena and associated theory, can be used to …
Apparatus – Weather in a Tank - Massachusetts Institute of …
In most experiments the water tank is placed on the white plastic base centered on the dial (this makes the view through the camera uniform and bright). However, in some experiments a …
Convection: How to – Weather in a Tank - Massachusetts Institute …
Several filling options can be used to set up different stratifications: unstratified: the tank is filled up with water at room temperature. two-layer: salty water is used to fill the tank up to a depth …
General Circulation: Tank – Hadley – Weather in a Tank
In this experiment, cold water – made cold by the proximity of the ice bucket – sinks and flows radially outwards along the bottom. In compensation, relatively warm water rises and moves …
Thermohaline Circulation: How to – Weather in a Tank
Fig. 1: Experimental setup with water before dye is added to the holding tank. The thin (1/4”) tube from the diffuser is threaded through holes in a clamp – see Fig.2 – and through a control …
Rossby Waves: Introduction – Weather in a Tank
The laboratory experiment illustrates the fundamental mechanism behind Rossby waves by investigating the ‘westward’ drift of a vortex induced by a melting ice cube in a rotating fluid of …
Convection: Theory – Weather in a Tank
The main factors that drive convection are related to the buoyancy of a parcel of fluid within a fluid medium. For the purposes of exploring buoyancy, we will think of a column filled with a nearly …
Projects – Weather in a Tank - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Flow over a barrier: this experiment investigates Rossby waves generated by flow over a barrier on a beta plane. Taylor Columns: The rigidity imparted to a fluid by rotation, as encapsulated …
Rossby Waves: Tank – How to (Ice Cubes) – Weather in a Tank
Introduction | Tank – How to | Tank – Examples | Ocean – Examples | Theory. The experiments described here illustrate the fundamental mechanism behind Rossby waves by investigating …
Balanced Vortex: Theory – Weather in a Tank
Balanced Vortex: Theory. Introduction | Tank – How to | Tank – Examples | Atmosphere – Examples | Theory | For Teachers | Wiki. We develop here some background theory for …