Oceanography

Oceanography

The scientific studies of the ocean.

Contributors in Oceanography

Oceanography

In meteorology, the process of formation of an occluded front . Some persons restrict the use of this time to the usual case where the process begins at the apex of a wave cyclone ; when the process ...

Point vortex

Earth science; Oceanography

Idealised vortex in two dimensions with zero vorticity everywhere except at a point where it is infinite. Specifically, a point vortex of strength \Gamma has vorticity \omega = \Gamma \delta( ...

Line vortex

Earth science; Oceanography

Idealised vortex in which vorticity is zero everywhere except along a line in space where it is infinite. The strength of a line vortex is \Gamma, the circulation along any circuit around the line.

Undercurrent

Earth science; Oceanography

In oceanography, a water current flowing beneath a surface current at a different speed or in a different direction.

Gradient current

Earth science; Oceanography

In oceanography, a current associated with horizontal pressure gradients in the ocean and determined by the condition that the pressure force due to the distribution of mass balances the coriolis ...

Specific-volume anomaly

Earth science; Oceanography

In oceanography, the excess of the actual specific volume of the sea water at any point in the ocean over the specific volume of sea water of salinity 35 per mile ((s)) and temperature 0 degrees at ...

Dynamic-height anomaly

Earth science; Oceanography

In oceanography, the excess of the actual geopotential difference, between two given isobaric surfaces , over the geopotential difference in a homogeneous water column of salinity 35 per mille (%) ...