Oceanography

Oceanography

The scientific studies of the ocean.

Contributors in Oceanography

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 ...