Ekman
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1. Ekman - Noun
2. Ekman - Proper noun
Meaning
Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954)
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Based on Nansen's observations of ocean currents recorded during the Fram expedition, Ekman concluded that the effect of wind on the sea's surface produced currents which "formed something like a spiral staircase, down towards the depths".
Even acting behind a sizable amount of old-age make-up, the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman gives a relatively restrained performance as Faust.
Here she talks about preparing to dance Three by Ekman at the Isaac Theatre Royal.
In the early 1970s, Paul Ekman and colleagues began a line of research which suggests that many emotions are universal.
In the ocean they drive large-scale circulation patterns as well as Kelvin waves and Ekman spirals at the ocean surface.
Produced by commercial television channel TV4, it starred Gösta Ekman as "Victor Melldrov" and Lena Söderblom as his wife.