Concept information
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campaigns, elections, and the law
natural environment
environmental deterioration
climate change
Preferred term
oceanography
Definition
- The ocean is the largest habitat on the planet, and it houses an astounding array of life, from microbes to whales. Oceanography is the branch of Earth science that studies the Earth's oceans. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change; Oceanography]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Agulhas Current
- Antarctic circumpolar current
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Benguela Current
- chemical oceanography
- coastal upwelling
- composition of seawater
- current (oceanography)
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- Ekman Layer
- equatorial countercurrent
- Equatorial Undercurrent
- equatorial upwelling
- foraminifera
- global ocean observing system
- gulf stream
- Indian Ocean
- Kuroshio Current
- marine biology
- meridional overturning circulation
- mixed layer
- north atlantic oscillation
- oceanic changes
- offshoring emissions
- Pacific Ocean
- Peruvian Current
- physical oceanography
- phytoplankton
- salinity
- Somali Current
- Southern Ocean
- thermocline
- thermohaline circulation
- waves
- western boundary currents
- wind-driven circulation
- zooplankton
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/oceanography
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