Questions tagged [oceanography]
Oceanography is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean. It is also known as oceanology.
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Why should there not be water deep (e.g. below 6 kms) in the Earth's crust?
In 1970, the USSR began drilling at the Kola Super-deep Borehole. The target depth was 15,000 meters;
The stated areas of study were the deep structure of the Baltic Shield, seismic discontinuities ...
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Hypothetically, in the near future, could gas hydrate pingos erupt?
Could gas hydrate pingos erupt? If so, how quickly? And how much CH4 could they release?
I'm sorry if the questions sounds silly. I'm new here and I don't know much about gas hydrates and oceanography....
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Which universities are best for studying Oceanography as an undergrad? [closed]
I am a high school senior studying in a local school in Bangladesh. My passion is to study oceans & marine life. The drive of getting higher education in Oceanography has turned into ardent ...
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How ocean pockmarks are formed and how quickly?
I couldn't find much information about it on google and I don't know much about how pockmarks work.
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Are pycnocline zones formed by or after mixing of sea and fresh water?
I trying to study Estuaries and Brackish water.
A pycnocline is a layer of water that has the greatest density gradient in a body of water. Are they formed by or after mixing sea and fresh water?
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Are ocean waves diminished, enhanced or unaffected by underwater obstacles
Suppose you have a wave heading towards the beach, and under the water the surface rises suddenly then drops again back to the typical average slope of the coastline, does this have a muting affect on ...
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Would ultrasound be a valid method of mapping ocean floors given the perceived “gel” is ocean water?
I am a scuba diver, with a big idea that would require me to map various dive sites as I went to them and dove in them. The typical size and other implications of sonar technology would essentially ...
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Would it be possible, from the earth’s creation or during its various geomorphological changes, for all the following hypotheses to be probable?
I’m designing a fictional world setting for a game, and I would like to know whether it has a relative coherence based on science. (Don’t mind if it is an almost improbable scenario).
Would it be ...
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How do we know the Arctic is just ice?
If I look at an Earth's map, the Arctic/North Pole always appears just like water. Evidently this is actually covered by ice, with an area depending on the time of the year. If this area is bigger ...
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Why is calcium so much more abundant in/on Earth's crust (and oceans) than it is elsewhere? (relatively speaking…)
Inside the entire Earth as a whole, and throughout our Solar System and galaxy, etc., magnesium is at least 14 times (or more) as common as calcium, atom-per-atom.
But, on Earth's crust and oceans, ...
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How do long, thin, island chains such as North Carolina's outer banks, form?
I can't think of a possible explanation, there's no volcanic activity in the area, and it gets destroyed every time a hurricane passes through. How did it get there?
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SWAN doesn't run [duplicate]
I'm Ocean Engineering Master Student. I'm not an expert in SWAN. I have some problem with it. Previously my result like rotated so I take another option to make grids using GridBuilder but SWAN doesn'...
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SWAN WAVE model: Strange result
I'm Ocean Engineering Master Student. I have some problems with my research. When I plot the result it is rotated. The color blue one is land. This my script, what should I do to fix the problem?
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Deriving shallow water equations: why is the vertical velocity equal to the material derivative of the surface level?
I'm reading about the derivation of shallow water equations, and I have a hard time understanding why
$$ w(\eta) = \frac{D\eta}{Dt}$$
where $w$ is the vertical velocity, $\eta$ is the (top or bottom) ...
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Why has the Earth's average sea level risen 'only' by nine inches after one degree C increase in temperature?
I am only doing gross calculations here, but...
If the Earth has warmed by about one degree Celsius in the last century or so, and the thermal expansion coefficient of water is about .0002085, then ...
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Are there four-times daily sea surface temperature (SST) data product for Tropical Cyclone research?
Now I am working on a Tropical Cyclone project, and want to figure out the SST status when a TC passes by. I've been searching for SST products, yet there only show up to daily SST. My question is ...
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How far would average sea level rise from a 25% increase in total ocean volume?
What amount of average sea level rise (in meters above 2020 levels) would be associated with a 25% increase in total ocean volume?
The reason I ask is because of this study that indicates Earth has ...
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Can not open Grib files from Nomands
I am trying to read in a file from https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov
I can read all multigrid files like here
but my script fails to read files from other links that are ...
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Will the sea get saltier forever?
The sea wasn't always salty. It's been getting saltier over millions of years as minerals dissolve.
Is there a natural limit to this process, or the will the sea keep getting saltier forever?
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Would hurricanes on an ocean planet continue indefinitely?
Hurricanes seem to run out of steam when they make landfall.
If our planet were entirely covered by ocean, would hurricanes continue indefinitely? Would they keep gathering energy and increasing in ...
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What percentage of oceans and seas fall in tropical, subtropical, temperate and cold zones?
It is easy to find information on total area of oceans and seas. For example Atlantic ocean is 106 500 000 km², Indian ocean is 70 560 000 km² and Pacific ocean is 165 200 000 km². But waht percent of ...
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What are good oceanographic journals
I am a developer with a oceanographic side project.
I did some ML on wave & tide data and thought of publishing it in a paper. What are some good journals to send it to? Any recommendations?
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Australia east coast data access WW3
I am currently looking into
https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/product_table.shtml?-multi_1-
And wondering why no station for the Australia East Coast is defined in the list.
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Will increased level of ocean acidity lead to more frequent acid rain?
Will increased level of ocean acidity lead to more frequent acid rain?
I searched on google and it says acid rain will have minor impact on ocean acidity, but I am not sure if increased ocean acidity ...
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What will the sea level be when the ice caps/glaciers melt? [duplicate]
I have my views and you have yours, so I ask a question, what was the average sea level in Athens, Greece 2,720 years ago? What was the average sea level in ancient Rome 2,420 years ago? https://en....
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What is the reason for the stratification of water column in oceans?
I read that isopycnal diffusion is 107 times larger than diapycnal diffusion and this is the reason why the concentrations in the thermocline and below do not propagate to shallow waters. However, I ...
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Is the slowing down of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation a response to climate change?
I have been taught that the changes in current were caused primarily by climate change but upon reading the conclusion of the paper named: "Observed decline of the Atlantic meridional overturning ...
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How can oceanic Rossby waves move from East to West?
I can find several examples of Rossby waves, mainly atmospheric, moving towards East. Is it possible that they also move towards West?
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Does anyone know of any studies comparing juvenile and adult abundance data for an ontogenetic reef fish? [closed]
I'm trying to look into relationships between juvenile Hogfish which recruit in sea grass habitats to adult abundance data that move to deeper offshore reef and hard bottom habitat. I have data from ...
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Does Earth's rotation cause sea levels to increase from east to west?
Intuitively if the Earth were to rotate fast enough from west to east, the average sea level would be noticeably higher on the west edge of the oceans. Does Earth's rotation cause this effect in ...
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SeaDataNet's NEMO software, stuck on data validation?
I'm new to the community and this is my first question, I would appreciate in advance your patience and your time to read this post.
I'm currently processing some oceanographic data such as salinity, ...
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What are these river/canyon-like carvings in the ocean?
Browsing around Google Maps, I came across this off the south-west coast of Ireland
It looks very consistent with the shape rivers and their tributaries might make, but it has me puzzled since it's ...
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Use of radiolarian fossils to assess CO2 levels in early geological periods
Radiolaria are microscopic marine protozoans commonly found as fossils in rocks dating as far back as the early Cambrian. Their silica skeletons are damaged by high levels of CO2, so is it possible to ...
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Ocean Acidification - The effect of CO2 concentration on the pH of the ocean [duplicate]
I'm confused about how increased CO2 concentration in the atmosphere affects the pH of the ocean.
The increase in CO2 concentration means the pH of the ocean will decrease (by several chemical rxns). ...
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The effect of CO2 concentration on the pH of the ocean
I'm confused about how increased $\ce{CO2}$ concentration in the atmosphere affects the pH of the ocean.
The increase in $\ce{CO2}$ concentration means the pH of the ocean will decrease (by several ...
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Why does vertical diffusivity increase with depth in the ocean?
In Talley et al.'s Descriptive Physical Oceanography, figure S7.4, it seems that vertical Eddy diffusivity increases with depth between 0 and 30 degrees latitude. Why is this? I thought that ...
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Have the oceans dissolved water vapour?
The oceans have dissolved gases as N2 or O2.
Henry's law establishes there is an equilibrium between the atmospheric concentration of a gas and its concentration in the ocean.
The atmosphere has H2O(...
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Why are there waves in seas towards shore - even in night?
Waves are mostly caused by Friction of wind on surface of water.
Wind blows from sea to land in day and land to sea in night due to pressure and temperature difference.
So it is intuitive why there ...
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Most corrosive seawater areas in world
I am looking for any studies or maps detailing the average salinity and temperature for areas of the Earth's oceans. As an extra if anyone has data or maps on areas with large amounts of in-trained ...
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Is Hudson Bay part of the Arctic or the Atlantic Ocean?
Years ago I learned that the Columbia ice field was North America's triple divide point: water flowing from this ice field could drain into the Artic, the Pacific, and the Atlantic Ocean. Something I ...
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Increase Evaporation from oceans
I would like to ask you about evaporation from sea water. Can you increase evaporation by spraying seawater to the air? Is there any difference compared to freshwater spraying (aerosol particles)?
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Is the ocean a carbon sink when considering only the biospheric component?
Most people knows that the ocean overall is a carbon sink, but a big part of the sink is due to chemical equilibrium (via dissolution) with the atmosphere (for ref: https://link.springer.com/article/...
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How to solve libnetcdf.so.12: cannot open shared object file in pyferret?
My pyferret was working perfectly until I had installed netCDF4 and now it is throwing up this error
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How do I start with Modular Ocean Model version 6 i.e. MOM6 on my ubuntu linux machine?
I am learning ocean modelling and have started with MOM6. I needed guidance on where to start from and how to run the model on my local machine (Ubuntu) to perform various tasks such as regridding or ...
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History of the Arctic Ocean
Much of the Arctic Ocean is fairly shallow compared to other oceans. There must have been times in the past during severe ice ages that a lot of what is now the ocean bed was above sea level. When was ...
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Result of floating-iron-balls in the mid-pacific?
I had an idea to make green islands from mid-pacific plastic: Release a million tons of floating iron balls there, which will stay in the same regions as the plastic and hopefully cause a veritable ...
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On La Vagabonde what Citizen Science is Possible? [closed]
The Catamaran La Vagabonde is a high tech vessel that's designed to be as carbon neutral as possible.
Subject to the constraints of space, time and safety, what citizen science projects would be ...
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How can methylmercury in the ocean be reabsorbed into the atmosphere?
The Sacramento Bee news article Toxic fog may be poisoning some of California’s mountain lions, study says says
Algae in the ocean convert mercury to methylmercury, its most toxic form, which can ...
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Why does the ocean seem much cleaner than the bay I live near
I live in Melbourne near a bay, and it always seems really dirty, whenever I go out to the open ocean the water always seems much cleaner. Is there a reason for this, does the bay trap pollution or do ...
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Creating a general log sheet for CTD and ADCP for fieldwork
It is close to the deadline for conducting research on a research vessel for the Irish Sea (one month left). I'm currently a student and would like some descriptive observational data/variables needed ...
