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* [[Visitor (fish)]], a species of ray-finned fish in the Pacific Ocean, by Catalogue of Life identifier ...

{{For|the album by Dol Ammad|Ocean Dynamics}} ...: mixed (surface) layer, upper ocean (above the [[thermocline]]), and deep ocean. ...

...open ocean. This velocity, caused by winds blowing over the surface of the ocean, is such that the [[Coriolis force]] on this layer is balanced by the force ...onally on the [[Ekman layer]], which typically is the upper 50–100m in the ocean. The frictional surface flow ('''''u''''') is at an angle to the right of t ...

{{short description|Narrow, southward-flowing ocean current along the southeastern coast of the Philippines}} [[File:Mindanao Current.jpg|thumb|The ocean currents surrounding the Philippines: (1) Mindanao Current, (2) Mindanao Un ...

...empting to explain the arrangement of the [[Earth]]'s [[continent]]s and [[ocean]]s by referring to the geometry of a [[tetrahedron]]. Although it was a his *The [[Pacific Ocean]] occupies about one third of the Earth's surface. ...

...zhu">{{Cite journal|last=You|first=Yuzhu|date=November 2002|title=A global ocean climatological atlas of the Turner angle: implications for double-diffusion ...:Sketch of thermal and haline stratification.png|thumb|267x267px|Sketch of ocean thermal and haline stratification, indicating "doubly stable", "diffusive", ...

{{short description|Ocean current with dynamics determined by the presence of a coastline}} ...gence Zone.jpg|thumb|right|The main ocean currents involved with the North Pacific Gyre]] ...

{{short description|Ocean waves trapped close to the equator}} ...tic]] heat release associated with cloud formation, and in the case of the ocean, anomalous changes in the strength or direction of the trade winds.<ref nam ...

{{Short description|Movement of water from the Pacific to the West Philippine/South China Sea}} ...m of the [[North Equatorial Current]] and consists of northwestern Pacific Ocean water. The other arm is the southward flowing [[Mindanao Current]]. The Kur ...

...ription|A summary of wind stress. A very important concept for large scale ocean circulation models.}} ...n of 20–35% and thus, results in a different simulation of the large scale ocean circulation.<ref name=":2" /> ...

'''The depth of the seafloor''' on the flanks of a [[mid-ocean ridge]] is determined mainly by the ''age'' of the [[oceanic lithosphere]]; ...a|editor=A. E. J. Engel|place=Boulder, CO|pages=599–620|chapter=History of Ocean Basins|editor2=Harold L. James|editor3=B. F. Leonard|chapter-url=http://www ...

...2=Robert |last3=Virmani |first3=Jyotika |date=15 March 1999 |title=Western Pacific interannual variability associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation |j ...t to take into account the coupled interaction of ocean-atmosphere and the ocean-memory system. These two assumptions are the foundation of the model descri ...

...ath>c^2 = g H</math>).<ref name="Gill">Gill, Adrian E., 1982: ''Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics,'' International Geophysics Series, Volume 30, Academic Press, 662 ...would correspond to ~0.9 m/s, requiring a 6-month time frame to cross the Pacific basin from east to west.<ref name ="Gill" /> For very short waves (as the ...

{{Short description|Set of python packages for Langragian ocean analysis}} ...ics.<ref name="langrarianframework">Parcels v0.9: prototyping a Lagrangian Ocean Analysis framework for the petascale age Lange, M and E van Sebille (2017), ...

...deformation radius]].<ref name="Gill">Gill, Adrian E., 1982: ''Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics,'' International Geophysics Series, Volume 30, Academic Press, 662 ...imilarly, westward-propagating mixed waves were also found in the Atlantic Ocean by Weisberg et al. (1979) with periods of 31 days, horizontal wavelengths o ...

...local ocean properties (on sea surface [[salinity]], [[temperature]] and [[Ocean surface topography|elevation]]), as well as on the large scale circulation ...g|thumb|412x412px|Shows the freshwater fluxes between the earth's systems (ocean, cryosphere, atmosphere, terrestrial water storages), whereby the oceanic f ...

{{Short description|Ocean dynamics}} ...is a key mechanism driving biological and biogeochemical processes in the ocean such as [[algal bloom]]s and the [[carbon cycle]]. ...

...stortion as feasible away from the continental masses and into the Pacific Ocean; to keep a familiar equatorial orientation; and to do all this without slic ...

{{Short description|Waves in the ocean and atmosphere created by bottom irregularities}} ...mics]], the bottom irregularities are on the ocean floor such as the [[mid-ocean ridge]]. For atmospheric dynamics, the other primary branch of [[geophysica ...

...iption|Mathematical representation of particulate organic carbon export to ocean floor}} ...'' is a power law used by [[oceanographers]] to describe the export to the ocean floor of [[particulate organic carbon]] (POC). The curve is controlled with ...