Oceanography

Oceanography

The scientific studies of the ocean.

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Burgers vortex

Earth science; Oceanography

Exact solution of the Navier-Stokes equation for a steady vortex in which the diffusion of vorticity is balanced by vortex stretching in an external strain field. The vortex has a Gaussian shape. ...

Brackish

Earth science; Oceanography

Environment that is influenced by seawater with a salinity less than 35 parts per thousand (usually caused by the presence of an inflow of fresh water).

Evaporation

Earth science; Oceanography

Evaporation can be defined as the process by which liquid water is converted into a gaseous state. Evaporation can only occur when water is available. It also requires that the humidity of the ...

Exponentially

Earth science; Oceanography

Expressible or approximately expressible by an exponential function; especially characterised by or being an extremely rapid increase (as in size or extent); an exponential growth rate.

Rayleigh number

Earth science; Oceanography

Expresses the ratio of the destabilising effects of buoyancy to the stabilising effects of diffusion of heat and momentum. Explicitly, Ra=g\beta \Delta T H^3/(\nu\kappa) in which g is the ...

Double diffusive convection

Earth science; Oceanography

Fluid motion that results from the release of potential energy from one of two or more factors that determine a fluid's density (for example, heat and salinity). Even if the density is statically ...

Easting

Earth science; Oceanography

First measurement of a grid reference used to specific the location of a point on a rectangular coordinate system. The distance measured eastward from the origin of a rectangular coordinate system.