Each winter the Kolyma River in Siberia freezes to a depth of several meters. But by June the river thaws and discharges its annual 136 cubic kilometers of water into Keep reading
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The Microscopic Ocean
When you’re the size of plankton, water may as well be molasses. Viscosity rules at these scales, and swimming plankton leave distinctive wakes that are slow to dissipate. Fish that feed on plankton use Keep reading
Urban Centers During Hurricanes
As the climate warms, many urban centers are facing stronger and more frequent storms. Some, like New York City, are using numerical simulations to better understand the interactions of their complicated urban Keep reading
Ice Bridges
During winter, Canada’s Arctic Archipelago, home of the Northwest Passage, generally fills with sea ice. These ice bridges form in the long and narrow straits between islands. A new paper Keep reading
Simulating the Earth
Computational fluid dynamics and supercomputing are increasingly powerful tools for tracking and understanding the complex dynamics of our planet. The videos above and below are NASA visualizations of carbon dioxide Keep reading
Fluids Round-Up
Time for another fluids round-up! Here’s some of the best fluid dynamics from around the web: – Band Ok Go filmed their latest music video in microgravity, complete with floating, Keep reading
Earth’s Aerosols
The motions of Earth’s atmosphere move more than just air and moisture. As seen in this animation built from NASA satellite data, the atmosphere also transports large amounts of small Keep reading
Melting Ice Sheets From Below
A new study of ice sheets in West Antarctica has made major news this week with the announcement that the ice melt in this region is unstoppable and may raise Keep reading
Frozen Methane Bubbles
As the Arctic warms, methane that was previously trapped by permafrost rises from the muddy bottom of lakes to escape into the atmosphere. Here the first clear ice of the Keep reading
Jellyfish Flow
Florescent dye reveals the flow pattern of ocean water around a swimming jellyfish. Some researchers posit that fluid drift associated with the swimming of marine animals may be as substantial Keep reading