User:Richard Hobbs/Seismic oceanography

Thermohaline circulation

Oceanographic frontal systems on the southern hemisphere

Seismic Oceanography is an interdisciplinary research topic that uses the spatial resolution of the reflection seismology to address issues in oceanography. The method is sensitive to the thermohaline structure of the oceans. Where thermohaline derives from thermo- referring to temperature and -haline referring to salt content, factors which together determine the sound speed and density of sea water. In particular, the results are of interest to physical oceanographers for the study of the ocean's physical attributes including temperature-salinity structure, mixing, internal waves, tides and currents.

Sub categories

• Background, the history and underlying physics;
• Applications, mapping the thermohaline structure in the oceans, quantifying internal wave and turbulent spectra, estimating water movement ;

See also

• American Practical Navigator
• Anoxic event - Anoxic sea water
• Argo (oceanography)
• Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) (in the US)
• Bathymetric chart
• Ecological Forecasting
• Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center (USA)

• Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science (book)
• Freak wave
• List of Oceanic basins
• Marine archaeology
• Marine engineering

• Ocean colonization
• Ocean engineering
• Oceanographic Museum - Monaco
• Oceans Act of 2000
• Pollution
• Sea - contains list of world's seas
• Sea level
• Sea level rise

Related disciplines

• Geophysics

• Physical oceanography

• Ocean dynamics

External links

• NASA/ JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) NASA/JPL PO.DAAC Data Center responsible for archiving and distributing data relevant to the physical state of the ocean.
• Ocean Science Series from the National Academy of Sciences.
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) - World's largest private, non-profit ocean research, engineering and education organization.
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• British Oceanographic Data Centre - a source of oceanographic data and information
• National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
• Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
• NEMO: Modeling framework for Oceanography
• Timeline of Oceanography
• Ocean Motion and Surface Currents (NASA)

Category:Applied and interdisciplinary physics Category:Oceanography Category:Physical geography