Sverdrups
The Sverdrup, abbreviated Sv, is a unit of measure used in physical oceanography to express large-scale water transport. One Sverdrup equals 1,000,000 cubic metres per second (10^6 m^3 s^-1). It is commonly used to quantify meridional transport in major ocean currents and basin-scale flows.
The unit is named after Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, a Norwegian oceanographer who helped develop the theoretical
In practice, transports of notable ocean systems are expressed in Sverdrups. The Gulf Stream and its North
Sverdrup theory offers a simplified, conceptual framework for wind-driven circulation, linking the curl of wind stress