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Part One . Verify that the Ekman volume flux for a wind of 74 m s and a Coriolis parameter of f = 1 x 10 's | is 1.1 m25-1 . Consider how this
changes with latitude. . What changes when we move to the southern hemisphere? Does it matter how deep the mixed layer is? . If the mixed
layer and thus the Ekman layer is shallower, how does the Ekman velocity (not the volume flux) change? Part Two . Read the UCA... 

Part One . Verify that the Ekman volume flux for a wind of 74 m s and a Coriolis parameter of f = 1 x 10 's | is 1.1 m25-1 . Consider how this changes with latitude. . What changes when we move to the southern hemisphere? Does it matter how deep the mixed layer is? . If the mixed layer and thus the Ekman layer is shallower, how does the Ekman velocity (not the volume flux) change? Part Two . Read the UCAR webpage on spin so that you can state or draw the direction of cyclonic and anti-cylonic flow in both the northern and southern hemispheres. . Read pages 155-156 in your Reader* on Ekman convergences/divergences so that you can draw the horizontal pressure gradient forces due to each. * these pages are from Ocean Circulation (pages 64-65) which is available through the library as an ebook : http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ubc/docDetail.action?docID=10190755

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