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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
Fisheries–Oceanography Cooperative Investigations (FOCI)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A collection of NOAA programmes attempting to understand the influence of environment on the abundance of various commercially valuable fish and shellfish stocks in Alaskan waters and their role in ...
International Ocean Network (ION)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A committee established in June 1993 with the goal of facilitating international cooperation in the development of ocean botton observatories. While originally created for the purposes of seismology, ...
Lost Instrument Network
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A clearinghouse created at WHOI to collect and broadcast information about lost and found oceanographic research equipment. It is implemented as a moderated mailing list to which interested parties ...
Liman Current
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A cold current that flows from the Okhotsk Sea into the Japan Sea. Part of this current continues south along the western coast and eventually becomes the North Korea Current.
Extinction coefficient
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A coefficient measuring the rate of extinction, or diminution, with distance of transmitted light in sea water. It is the attenuation coefficient for visible radiation.
Dimethylsulphide (DMS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A gas emitted by phytoplankton in seawater where it escapes to the air and and reacts to form aerosols and presumably has a non-negligible climate effect. DMS often has a maximum at the surface or ...
Wave model
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A general term for numerical models designed to simulate the generation, propagation, shoaling, interaction, refraction, reflection, etc. of wind waves. These are used to predict wave fields for ...
