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Physical oceanography
The scientific study of the physical conditions and processes related to the motions and physical properties of ocean currents and waters.
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Physical oceanography
National Environmental Satellite (NESDIS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Data and Information Service, a NOAA office that manages U.S. civil environmental satellite systems as well as global data bases for meteorology, oceanography, solid-earth geophysics, and ...
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOSDL)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Deacon Laboratory, an institute whose mission is to advance understanding of the ocean environment and processes of environmental change in the oceans and to predict future change by carrying out ...
stationary planetary wave
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Departures of the time average of the atmospheric circulation from zonal symmetry. They result from east-west variations in surface elevation and temperature associated with the continents and ...
phagotrophic
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Descriptive of a heterotrophic phytoplankton species that feeds on phytoplankton or detritus.
Biophysical Interdisciplinary Tropic Studies buoy (BITS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An instrumented and unmanned mooring designed to acoustically measure the size and abundance of marine life populations, collect the supporting data that characterizes the marine environment, and ...
Ras al Hadd Jet
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An intense offshore jet that forms at the easternmost tip of Oman as the East Arabian Current (EAC) separates from the coast at the eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. The RAH Jet is found at the ...
geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An interdisciplinary field of study for understanding fluid flows which occur naturally, e.g. the general circulation of the atmosphere, oceanic circulations, mantle convection, and the motions which ...
