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Sverdrup

The Sverdrup, named in honour of the pioneering oceanographers Harald and Otto Sverdrup[?] is an SI derived unit of volume transport, used almost exclusively in oceanography, to measure the volume of ocean currents. It is equivalent to 10⁶m³/s.

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