Oceanography

Oceanography

The scientific studies of the ocean.

Contributors in Oceanography

Oceanography

A popular nautical term for the stormy ocean regions between 40 degreesand 50 degreeslatitude. It nearly always refers to the southern hemisphere, where there is an almost completely uninterrupted ...

headlands

Earth science; Oceanography

A strip of land that juts seaward from the coastline. This feature normally bordered by a cliff.

beta plane

Earth science; Oceanography

An approximation, useful for the study of equatorial and midlatitude flow, whereby the Coriolis parameter is taken to vary linearly with latitude. Explicitly, the Coriolis parameter is given ...

west wind drift

Earth science; Oceanography

The ocean current with the largest volume transport (approximately 110 x 10(s) m(s)/sec), and the swiftest current; it flows from west to east through all the oceans around the Antarctic Continent. ...

scanning multichannel microwave radiometer (SMMR)

Earth science; Oceanography

An imaging system consisting of lenses, moving mirrors, and solid-state image sensors used to obtain observations of Earth and its atmosphere. Scanning radiometers, which are the sole imaging ...

geomorphology

Earth science; Oceanography

A branch of geology concerned with the surface features of the Earth, including landforms and forms under the oceans, and the chemical, physical and biological factors that act on them.