Oceanography

Oceanography

The scientific studies of the ocean.

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line vortex

Earth science; Oceanography

Idealized vortex in which vorticity is zero everywhere except along a line in space where it is infinite. The strength of a line vortex is \Gamma, the circulation along any circuit around the line.

Impacts on the environment, which are not a direct result of the development or industrial process, but are often produced away from it or as a result of a complex pathway. Sometimes referred to as ...

buoyancy force

Earth science; Oceanography

In a fluid with vertical density variation, the buoyancy force is the difference between the weight of an initial infinitessimal volume of fluid with the weight of a a fluid parcel of the same volume ...

stratified fluid

Earth science; Oceanography

In a stratified fluid the effective density varies with depth. Such circumstances occur naturally, for example, due to variations in temperature in the atmosphere, and due to temperature and ...

shortwave radiation

Earth science; Oceanography

In meteorology, a term used loosely to distinguish radiation in the visible and near-visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 0. 4 to 1. 0 micron in wavelength) from long-wave ...

occlusion

Earth science; Oceanography

In meteorology, the process of formation of an occluded front . Some persons restrict the use of this time to the usual case where the process begins at the apex of a wave cyclone ; when the process ...

decay

Earth science; Oceanography

In ocean wave studies, the loss of energy from wind generated ocean waves after they have ceased to be acted on by the wind; this process is accompanied by an increase in length and a decrease in ...