Physical oceanography

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Physical oceanography
Waves Airy wave theory • Ballantine scale • Benjamin-Feir instability • Boussinesq approximation • Breaking wave • Clapotis • Cnoidal wave • Cross sea • Dispersion • Edge wave • Equatorial waves • Fetch • Gravity wave • Green's law • Infragravity wave • Internal wave • Iribarren number • Kelvin wave • Kinematic wave • Longshore drift • Luke's variational principle • Mild-slope equation • Radiation stress • Rogue wave • Rossby wave • Rossby-gravity waves • Sea state • Seiche • Significant wave height • Soliton • Stokes boundary layer • Stokes drift • Stokes wave • Swell • Trochoidal wave • Tsunami • megatsunami • Undertow • Ursell number • Wave action • Wave base • Wave height • Wave nonlinearity • Wave power • Wave radar • Wave setup • Wave shoaling • Wave turbulence • Wave-current interaction • Waves and shallow water • one-dimensional Saint-Venant equations • shallow water equations • Wind wave • model
Circulation Atmospheric circulation • Baroclinity • Boundary current • Coriolis force • Coriolis-Stokes force • Craik-Leibovich vortex force • Downwelling • Eddy • Ekman layer • Ekman spiral • Ekman transport • El Niño-Southern Oscillation • General circulation model • Geochemical Ocean Sections Study • Geostrophic current • Global Ocean Data Analysis Project • Gulf Stream • Halothermal circulation • Humboldt Current • Hydrothermal circulation • Langmuir circulation • Longshore drift • Loop Current • Modular Ocean Model • Ocean current • Ocean dynamics • Ocean dynamical thermostat • Ocean gyre • Princeton ocean model • Rip current • Subsurface currents • Sverdrup balance • Thermohaline circulation • shutdown • Upwelling • Wind generated current • Whirlpool • World Ocean Circulation Experiment
Tides Amphidromic point • Earth tide • Head of tide • Internal tide • Lunitidal interval • Perigean spring tide • Rip tide • Rule of twelfths • Slack water • Tidal bore • Tidal force • Tidal power • Tidal race • Tidal range • Tidal resonance • Tide gauge • Tideline • Theory of tides
Landfor Abyssal fan • Abyssal plain • Atoll • Bathymetric chart • Coastal geography • Cold seep • Continental margin • Continental rise • Continental shelf • Contourite • Guyot • Hydrography • Knoll • Oceanic basin • Oceanic plateau • Oceanic trench • Passive margin • Seabed • Seamount • Submarine canyon • Submarine volcano
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Convergent boundary • Divergent boundary • Fracture zone • Hydrothermal vent • Marine geology • Mid-ocean ridge • Mohorovičić discontinuity • Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis • Oceanic crust • Outer trench swell • Ridge push • Seafloor spreading • Slab pull • Slab suction • Slab window • Subduction • Transform fault • Volcanic arc
Ocean zones Benthic • Deep ocean water • Deep sea • Littoral • Mesopelagic • Oceanic • Pelagic • Photic • Surf • Swash
Sea level Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis • Future sea level • Global Sea Level Observing System • North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System • Sea-level curve • Sea level rise • World Geodetic System
Acoustics Deep scattering layer • Hydroacoustics • Ocean acoustic tomography • Sofar bomb • SOFAR channel • Underwater acoustics
Satellites Jason-1 • Jason-2 (Ocean Surface Topography Mission) • Jason-3
Related Argo • Benthic lander • Color of water • DSV Alvin • Marginal sea • Marine energy • Marine pollution • Mooring • National Oceanographic Data Center • Ocean • Ocean exploration • Ocean observations • Ocean reanalysis • Ocean surface topography • Ocean thermal energy conversion • Oceanography • Outline of oceanography • Pelagic sediment • Sea surface microlayer • Sea surface temperature • Seawater • Science On a Sphere • Thermocline • Underwater glider • Water column • World Ocean Atlas
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