Oceanography

Oceanography

The scientific studies of the ocean.

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Rossby-gravity wave

Earth science; Oceanography

An equatorial wave whose dispersion relation is asymptotic to that for equatorial Kelvin waves for large positive (eastward) zonal wavenumbers and asymptotic to equatorial Rossby waves for large ...

Kirchhoff vortex

Earth science; Oceanography

An idealized vortex in unbounded fluid with uniform vorticity inside an elliptical patch and zero vorticity outside. For an ellipse with semi-axes a and b and vorticity omega in its interior, it ...

An instability of an unbounded stratified parallel shear flow to the development of cusp-like waves that propagate with phase speed in the along flow direction significantly different from the speed ...

International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES)

Earth science; Oceanography

An inter-governmental organisation concerned with marine and fish science.

monsoon current

Earth science; Oceanography

A seasonal, eastward-flowing ocean current of the Indian Ocean. The monsoon current replaces the north equatorial current and the equatorial counter-current in summer (Northern Hemisphere), when the ...

meridian

Earth science; Oceanography

A north-south reference line, particularly a great circle through a planet's geographical poles. A terrestrial meridian is a line on Earth's surface that connects points having the same astronomical ...