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effie
on Sept 4, 2016
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A global map of wind, weather, and ocean condition...
The point where velocity field vanishes seems to be a good example of the hairy ball theorem; even if the motion on the surface is not a rotation, if the field is continuous there has to be at least one point on the surface where velocity is zero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
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