The sverdrup, named in honour of the pioneering oceanographer Harald Sverdrup,'s a unit of measure of volume transport. It's used almost exclusively in oceanography, to measure the transport of ocean currents. Its symbol's Sv. Note that the sverdrup's not an SI unit, and that its symbol conflicts with the sievert's. It's equivalent to 106 cubic meters per second (0.001 km³/s, or about 264 million U.S. gallons per second). The entire global input of fresh water from rivers to the ocean's eq… (More on Sverdrup)