Physical oceanography

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 169. Chapters: Quaternary, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Tsunami, Tide, Biogeography, Iceberg, Guyot, Hawaiian Islands, Seamount, Secondary circulation, La Niña, Abyssal plain, Current sea level rise, List of submarine topographical features, Airy wave theory, Pacific decadal oscillation, Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture, Dispersion, Ecosystem of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, Ocean acoustic tomography, Kaiko, Radiation stress, Wind wave, ABISMO, Thermohaline circulation, Longshore drift, Submarine landslide, Internal tide, Seawater, Argo, North Atlantic oscillation, Wind wave model, Mid-ocean ridge, Marine Optical Buoy, Shoal, Continental shelf, Submarine earthquake, Friendly Floatees, MyOcean, Rossby wave, SOSUS, Intertidal zone, Bioturbation, Mixed layer, Thermocline, Ocean current, Turbidite, Kelvin wave, Indian Monsoon Current, Rip current, Darwin Mounds, Wave shoaling, Barrier island, Puerto Rico Trench, Tsunami Society, Rossby-gravity waves, Sea foam, Significant wave height, Ocean gyre, Global Ocean Data Analysis Project, Tidal resonance, Princeton Ocean Model, Hydrothermal circulation, Sverdrup balance, World Ocean Atlas, Ocean engineering, Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis, South Pacific convergence zone, Microturbulence, Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel, Oceanic zone, Black Sea undersea river, Cuspate foreland, Outer trench swell, Ocean bank, Halocline, Oceanic basin, Oceanic plateau, Milwaukee Deep, Monterey Canyon, South Pacific Gyre, Muirfield Seamount, Boundary current, Hawaii Ocean Time-series, Hundred-year wave, Geophysical fluid dynamics, Modular Ocean Model, Maui Nui, Wind stress, Wave-current interaction, Salt fingering, Lunitidal interval, Meteotsunami, Florida Platform, Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study, Ice rafting, Eratosthenes Seamount, Antarctic Circumpolar Wave, Ekman current meter, South Atlantic Gyre, Gulf Trough, Beaufort Gyre, Backwashing, Langmuir circulation, Abyssal hill, South Sandwich Trench, Undertow, Deep sea physical oceanography, Chemocline, Glacio-geological databases, Region of freshwater influence, Abyssal fan, Pycnocline, Neritic zone, Archipelagic apron, Sea surface height, North Pacific Gyre, Mann Eddy, Submersion, Ice drift, Shore lead, Halothermal circulation, Ocean Observatories Initiative, Flaw lead, MIT General Circulation Model, World Ocean Circulation Experiment, Hough function, Tasman Outflow, Tideline, Water mass, List of ocean circulation models, Pacific-North American teleconnection pattern, Lithogenic silica, Subtropical Front, Surf zone, North Atlantic Gyre, Cold water wake, Accretion, Isopycnal, Weddell Gyre, Ross Gyre, Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level, Indian Ocean Gyre, Charleston Bar, Parallel Ocean Program. Excerpt: Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth. Most places in the ocean usually experience two high tides and two low tides each day (semidiurnal tide), but some locations experience only one high and one low tide each day (diurnal tide). The times and amplitude of the tides at the coast are influenced by the alignment of the Sun and Moon, by the pattern of tides in the deep ocean (see figure 4) and by the shape of the coastline and near-shore bathymetry (see figure 7). Tides vary on timescales ranging from hours to years due to numerous influences. To make accurate records, tide gauges at ...