Oceanography

Oceanography

The scientific studies of the ocean.

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Oceanography

Coastal wetland

Earth science; Oceanography

Habitat found along a coastline and is covered with ocean salt water for all or part of the year. Examples of this type of habitat include tidal marshes, bays, lagoons, tidal flats, and mangrove ...

Sensible heat

Earth science; Oceanography

Heat energy that can be felt or measured directly with a thermometer.

Bottomset bed

Earth science; Oceanography

Horizontal deltaic deposit of alluvial sediment composed of fine silt and clay.

Impacts on the environment, which are not a direct result of the development or industrial process, but are often produced away from it or as a result of a complex pathway. Sometimes referred to as ...

Stratified fluid

Earth science; Oceanography

In a stratified fluid the effective density varies with depth. Such circumstances occur naturally, for example, due to variations in temperature in the atmosphere, and due to temperature and ...

Shortwave radiation

Earth science; Oceanography

In meteorology, a term used loosely to distinguish radiation in the visible and near-visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 0. 4 to 1. 0 micron in wavelength) from long-wave ...

Buoyancy force

Earth science; Oceanography

In a fluid with vertical density variation, the buoyancy force is the difference between the weight of an initial infinitessimal volume of fluid with the weight of a a fluid parcel of the same volume ...