Oceanography

Oceanography

The scientific studies of the ocean.

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emissivity

Earth science; Oceanography

A property of a material, measured as the emittance of a specimen of the material that is thick enough to be completely opaque and has an optically smooth surface.

mixed tide

Earth science; Oceanography

A tide in which the diurnal and semidiurnal components are both prominent. Diurnal inequality is present in high waters , low waters , or in both.

mantissa

Earth science; Oceanography

A fixed point number composed of the most significant digits of a given floating point number. The positive decimal part of a common logarithm.

heat budget

Earth science; Oceanography

A listing of all the sources of heat transfers for some thermodynamic system, to account for the total heat transfers into or out of the system.

continental borderland

Earth science; Oceanography

A submarine plateau or irregular area adjacent to a continent , with depths greatly exceeding those on the continental shelf , but not as great as in the deep oceans.

reversing current

Earth science; Oceanography

A tidal current which flows alternately in approximately opposite directions, with periods of slack water at each reversal. Such currents occur chiefly in restricted channels; open sea areas ...

glacier

Earth science; Oceanography

A multiyear surplus accumulation of snowfall in excess of snow melt on land and resulting in a mass of ice at least 0. 1 km2 in area that shows some evidence of movement in response to gravity. A ...