Oceanography

Oceanography

The scientific studies of the ocean.

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Blackbody radiator

Earth science; Oceanography

A hypothetical, ideal radiator that totally absorbs and reemits all energy incident upon it. Actual objects only approach this ideal.

Cirrus clouds

Earth science; Oceanography

A type of cloud composed of ice crystals and shaped in the form of hair-like filaments. It is formed at an altitude of approximately 9700 m.

Magnetometer

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.

Miescattering

Earth science; Oceanography

1. Developed by Gustav Mie in 1908, this is a complete mathematical-physical theory of the scattering of electromagnetic radiation by spherical particles. In contrast to Rayleigh scattering, the ...

Within a channel in a rotating system, a Poincare' wave has sinusoidally varying cross-channel velocity with an integral or half integral number of cross-channel waves spanning the channel. In the ...

Shear instability

Earth science; Oceanography

An instability of an unbounded parallel shear flow to the growth and nonlinear development of waves with phase speed in the along flow direction approximately equal to the speed of the inflexion ...