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Physical oceanography
The scientific study of the physical conditions and processes related to the motions and physical properties of ocean currents and waters.
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Physical oceanography
Gulf of Valencia
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The concave sea area off Valencia in the southern Balearic Sea to the north of the Ibiza Channel. The bottom topography forms a trough deeper than 1000 m bounded by the wide continental Ebro margin ...
Time step
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The basic unit of temporal resolution in a numerical model created by discretizing a continuum differential equation to create an analogous discrete algebraic equation. The model time advances by ...
Paleolimnology
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The branch of limnology that studies of past fresh water, saline and brackish environments. This is done in large part by taking cores from a limnological sediment system and examining the ...
Cariaco Basin
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The Cariaco Basin is a 1400 m deep depression within the continental shelf of Venezuela, connected to the southeastern Caribbean Sea across a sill that reaches approximately 140 m at its deepest ...
Global 3 Observing Systems (G3OS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The collective name for the GCOS, GOOS and GTOS systems. Information about all three can be found at GOSIC.
Offshore
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The comparatively flat portion of a beach profile extending seaward from beyond the breaker zone to the edge of the continental shelf.
Tidal evolution
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The changing of the Earth–Moon tidal characteristics over time.
