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Oceanography
The scientific studies of the ocean.
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carbon pump
Earth science; Oceanography
The organic carbon that forms the biological pump is transported primarily by sinking particulate material, for example dead organisms (including algal mats) or faecal pellets. However, some carbon ...
exponent
Earth science; Oceanography
The part of a floating-point number specifying the power of ten by which the mantissa should be multiplied. In the common notation, e.g., 3. 1E8, the exponent is 8.
thermal emission
Earth science; Oceanography
The phenomenon by which electrons or ions are emitted from a heated object.
falling tide
Earth science; Oceanography
The portion of the tide cycle between high water and the following low water. Sometimes called ebb tide.
ultraviolet catastrophe
Earth science; Oceanography
The prediction of the Rayleigh-Jeans law that the energy radiated by a blackbody at extremely short wavelengths is extremely large, and the total energy radiated is infinite, whereas in reality it ...
absorption
Earth science; Oceanography
The process by which radiant energy is absorbed and converted into other forms of energy. A substance that absorbs energy may also be a medium of refraction, diffraction, or scattering; these ...
scattering
Earth science; Oceanography
The process by which small particles suspended in a medium of a different index of refraction diffuse a portion of the incident radiation in all directions. In scattering, no energy transformation ...
