Sverdrup (Sv)

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1. Story
2. The unit in which ocean transports are stated: one sverdrup is one million cubic metres per second. It exists because the numbers involved are otherwise unreadable — the Amazon in flood is roughly a fifth of a sverdrup, while the Antarctic Circumpolar Current moves about 173. Every transport figure in this Journey is in these units, and the unit matters for judging claims: a 1 Sv-per-decade AMOC trend against a 2.8 Sv standard deviation is a small signal inside a large amount of natural variability, and saying so is not scepticism but arithmetic.
3. Knowledge
4. Sverdrup (Sv)
5. Connections
6. RAPID-MOCHA-WBTS Array at 26.5°N
7. Drake Passage is measured and the ACC turns out to be larger
8. Twenty-two years of continuous AMOC observation
9. Evidence
10. Daily Florida Current transport is derived from voltages induced on a submarine telecommunications cable across the Straits of Florida near 27°N, between West Palm Beach and Eight Mile Rock on Grand Bahama, measured near-continuously since 1982; the long-term mean is 32 Sv, where 1 Sv = 10⁶ m³ s⁻¹. Read via search summary; the AOML domain is blocked to this run.