oceanography
/ˌəʊʃəˈnɒɡrəfi
/noun [mass noun]
The branch of science that deals with the physical and biological properties and phenomena of the sea.Both students are in the biological oceanography curricular group at Scripps....
- He specializes in ocean acoustics, signal processing and physical oceanography.
- In 1855, Maury wrote the first textbook on modern oceanography, The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology.
Derivatives
oceanographer
/ noun ...- The difference between adjacent water bodies allows physical oceanographers to calculate rates of water movement in the deep sea.
- See the tools that oceanographers use, like this buoy used to measure ocean conditions.
- I'm a physical oceanographer based at Southampton Oceanography Centre, where we also do climate research.
oceanographic
/ adjective ...- By the 1930s Ritter's legacy included the full range of oceanographic disciplines - biological, physical, chemical, and geological.
- Transient oceanographic features exist, however, facilitating shelf retention, cross-bight exchange, and return of expatriated larvae.
- They had been five months in the Pacific, traveled more than 12,000 miles and explored more than 62 oceanographic stations.
oceanographical
- From further geological and oceanographical investigation, the positions and edges of the oceanic plates and the continents within them can be identified and also mapped.
- A detailed table of the oceanographical, sedimentological and palaeontological parameters that characterize the two episode types was presented by Jeppsson.
Rhymes
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