Across the basin

Eight depths. Wind, shear, and water in motion.

COLUMN LAB ↗

SIMULATED TIME0.0 days

MAX DISPLAYED SPEED0.000 m/s

SALT BUDGET ERROR0

PRESSURE RESIDUAL0 m

Choose an experiment

Starting ocean

Wind stress amplitude 0.10 Pa

Easterlies at the north and south edges; westerlies through the middle.

View depth Map color

Add freshwater

Select a location on the map to add a 0.5 m freshwater pulse at 0 °C. The pulse covers cells within a two-cell radius.

Experiment setup

Grid · resets experiment

Vertical mixing Momentum transport

Start the wind to build circulation.

SIMULATED FLOW · NORTH ↑

Surface current speed

32 × 24 cells

Arrows show computed flow; their lengths scale within this view. Moving dots follow the displayed horizontal velocity field. They do not follow vertical exchange. The full-column view averages velocity over depth.

FLOW ACROSS LATITUDE

Northward transport by depth

Positive values move north; negative values move south. Each row represents one layer.

Budgets and solver details

Surface current speed

Threefold disturbance

Northward transport by depth