about Ocean current animation's meaning

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about Ocean current animation's meaning #71

Open jason-jxf opened 7 years ago

jason-jxf commented 7 years ago

Is the data source of the flow visualization of the ocean current a streamline, and if it is a streamline describing the velocity tangent at a given moment, what is the physical meaning of animation?