Oceanography

Oceanography

The scientific studies of the ocean.

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fluxgate gradiometer

Earth science; Oceanography

A remote sensing instrument capable of identifying sub-surface archaeological features by measuring the difference in their magnetic properties against the surrounding soils.

beach profile

Earth science; Oceanography

A cross-sectional plot of beach survey data, which can be used to illustrate seasonal and long-terms changes in beach volume.

beach replenishment

Earth science; Oceanography

Replacement of beach sand removed by ocean waters. Sediment from other areas is supplied by mechanical means to supplement sand on an existing beach or to build up an eroded beach.

Gaussian wave packet

Earth science; Oceanography

A collection of Gaussian waves have amplitude wavenumber dependence of some central wavenumber.

And the West posted a wave that moves because of potential vorticity gradient isintrobik. Rosbi waves also called planetary waves. In particular, in shallow water, move closer to the waves due to the ...

Equatorial rossby wave

Earth science; Oceanography

An equatorially trapped westward propagating wave that moves due to isentropic gradients of potential vorticity. The meridional velocity of the n'th mode of these waves has the form exp(-y 2 /2R 2 ) ...

Inertio-gravity wave

Earth science; Oceanography

An internal gravity wave propagating under the influence of both buoyancy and Coriolis forces. The dispersion relation is given by frequency \omega = +/- (N k_h + f m)/