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Cyclones in the laboratory

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Environment » Natural disasters

Pure sciences » Physics

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Director(s): DALAISE Marcel

Right owner: CNRS

Producer(s): CNRS Images (FRANCE)

Reference: ATH_CNRS_0208_15

Length: 00:09:18

Production year: 2005

Programme type: Programme

Available versions: FR

Available supports: DV

Subject Pure Sciences - Environment

Programme summary

In a Grenoble laboratory, researchers have access to a unique instrument: the largest turntable in the world, 14 meters in diameter. They benefit from a remarkable instrument for modeling experimentally the effect of the Coriolis Force on atmospheric and ocean flow, which are major phenomena on our planet.

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