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Nansen observes ice drifting to the right of the wind

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During the drift of the Fram across the Arctic basin, Fridtjof Nansen recorded that surface ice moved consistently at 20 to 40 degrees to the right of the wind rather than downwind. He had no theory for it and asked a young Swedish physicist to find one. The observation is the empirical root of the entire theory of wind-driven ocean circulation.

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