Aquatic science, the Glossary
Aquatic science is the study of the various bodies of water that make up our planet including oceanic and freshwater environments.[1]
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111 relations: Algae, Aquatic animal, Aquatic ecosystem, Aquatic insect, Atlantic Ocean, Atmosphere, Biological life cycle, Biology, Bottom trawling, Canyon, Chemical property, Chemical reaction, Chemistry, Chlorophyll, Climate, Climate change, Coastal erosion, Computational model, Coral, Crustacean, Dead zone (ecology), Diatom, Dinoflagellate, Disease, Drinking water, Ecology, Ecosystem, Eddy (fluid dynamics), Effects of climate change on oceans, Experiment, Field experiment, Field research, Fish, Flagellum, Fresh water, Geology, GIS and aquatic science, Groundwater, Gyre (disambiguation), Habitat destruction, Holiday, Hydrothermal circulation, Hypothesis, Intensive farming, Interdisciplinarity, Invasive species, Invertebrate, Jellyfish, Laboratory, Lake, ... Expand index (61 more) »
Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is any animal, whether vertebrate or invertebrate, that lives in water for all or most of its lifetime.
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Aquatic ecosystem
An aquatic ecosystem is an ecosystem found in and around a body of water, in contrast to land-based terrestrial ecosystems.
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Aquatic insect
Aquatic insects or water insects live some portion of their life cycle in the water.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer of gasses that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object.
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Biological life cycle
In biology, a biological life cycle (or just life cycle when the biological context is clear) is a series of stages of the life of an organism, that begins as a zygote, often in an egg, and concludes as an adult that reproduces, producing an offspring in the form of a new zygote which then itself goes through the same series of stages, the process repeating in a cyclic fashion.
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Biology
Biology is the scientific study of life.
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Bottom trawling
Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the seafloor. Aquatic science and Bottom trawling are marine biology.
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Canyon
A canyon (from; archaic British English spelling: cañon), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales.
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Chemical property
A chemical property is any of a material's properties that becomes evident during, or after, a chemical reaction; that is, any quality that can be established only by changing a substance's chemical identity.
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Chemical reaction
A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.
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Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll is any of several related green pigments found in cyanobacteria and in the chloroplasts of algae and plants.
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Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Coastal erosion
Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms.
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Computational model
A computational model uses computer programs to simulate and study complex systems using an algorithmic or mechanistic approach and is widely used in a diverse range of fields spanning from physics, engineering, chemistry and biology to economics, psychology, cognitive science and computer science.
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Coral
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.
Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
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Dead zone (ecology)
Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans and large lakes.
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Diatom
A diatom (Neo-Latin diatoma) is any member of a large group comprising several genera of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world.
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Dinoflagellate
The dinoflagellates are a monophyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes constituting the phylum Dinoflagellata and are usually considered protists.
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Disease
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury.
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Drinking water
Drinking water or potable water is water that is safe for ingestion, either when drunk directly in liquid form or consumed indirectly through food preparation.
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Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
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Eddy (fluid dynamics)
In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid is in a turbulent flow regime.
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Effects of climate change on oceans
There are many effects of climate change on oceans.
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Experiment
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
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Field experiment
Field experiments are experiments carried out outside of laboratory settings.
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Field research
Field research, field studies, or fieldwork is the collection of raw data outside a laboratory, library, or workplace setting.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Flagellum
A flagellum (flagella) (Latin for 'whip' or 'scourge') is a hairlike appendage that protrudes from certain plant and animal sperm cells, from fungal spores (zoospores), and from a wide range of microorganisms to provide motility.
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Fresh water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
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Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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GIS and aquatic science
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has become an integral part of aquatic science and limnology.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Gyre (disambiguation)
An ocean gyre is any large system of rotating ocean currents in oceanography.
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Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.
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Holiday
A holiday is a day or other period of time set aside for festivals or recreation.
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Hydrothermal circulation
Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ, water,Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Hypothesis
A hypothesis (hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
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Intensive farming
Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming (as opposed to extensive farming), conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output per unit of agricultural land area.
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Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project).
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Invasive species
An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.
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Jellyfish
Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.
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Laboratory
A laboratory (colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.
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Lake
A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.
Lewis & Clark Law School
The Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College (also known as Lewis & Clark Law School), is an American Bar Association-approved private law school in Portland, Oregon.
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Limnology
Limnology is the study of inland aquatic ecosystems.
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Mangrove forest
Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones.
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Mantle (geology)
A mantle is a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust.
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Marsh
In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.
Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
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Mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.
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Natural environment
The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
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Nelumbo nucifera
Nelumbo nucifera, also known as sacred lotus, Indian lotus, or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae.
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Nile
The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.
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Nymphaeaceae
Nymphaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies.
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Observation
Observation in the natural sciences is an act or instance of noticing or perceiving and the acquisition of information from a primary source.
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Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx. Aquatic science and ocean are oceanography.
Ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's ocean. Aquatic science and ocean acidification are oceanography.
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Ocean current
An ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by a number of forces acting upon the water, including wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbeling, and temperature and salinity differences.
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Oceanic basin
In hydrology, an oceanic basin (or ocean basin) is anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater.
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Oceanography
Oceanography, also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean.
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Organic growth
Organic business growth is related to the growth of natural systems and organisms, societies and economies, as a dynamic organizational process, that for business expansion is marked by increased output, customer base expansion, or new product development, as opposed to mergers and acquisitions, which is inorganic growth.
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Organism
An organism is defined in a medical dictionary as any living thing that functions as an individual.
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Overfishing
Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in the species becoming increasingly underpopulated in that area.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
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Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences
The Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal.
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Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.
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Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.
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Physical property
A physical property is any property of a physical system that is measurable.
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Physics
Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
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Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater ecosystems.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Pollutant
A pollutant or novel entity is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource.
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Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.
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Pontederia crassipes
Pontederia crassipes (formerly Eichhornia crassipes), commonly known as common water hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to South America, naturalized throughout the world, and often invasive outside its native range.
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Predator (disambiguation)
A predator is an animal that kills other animals to eat.
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Prediction
A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dictum, "something said") or '''forecast''' is a statement about a future event or about future data.
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Regeneration (biology)
Regeneration in biology is the process of renewal, restoration, and tissue growth that makes genomes, cells, organisms, and ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations or events that cause disturbance or damage.
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Reptile
Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.
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Reservoir
A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.
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Rip current
A rip current (also rip) is a specific type of water current that can occur near beaches where waves break.
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River
A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.
Scientific control
A scientific control is an experiment or observation designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the independent variable (i.e. confounding variables).
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Seabed
The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean. Aquatic science and seabed are oceanography.
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Seagrass
Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine environments.
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Seawater
Seawater, or sea water, is water from a sea or ocean.
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Shrimp
A shrimp (shrimp (US) or shrimps (UK) is a crustacean (a form of shellfish) with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – typically belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchiata of the order Decapoda, although some crustaceans outside of this order are also referred to as "shrimp".
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Snail
A snail is a shelled gastropod.
Starfish
Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.
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Stream
A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
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Submarine volcano
Submarine volcanoes are underwater vents or fissures in the Earth's surface from which magma can erupt.
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Surface runoff
Surface runoff (also known as overland flow or terrestrial runoff) is the unconfined flow of water over the ground surface, in contrast to channel runoff (or stream flow).
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Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.
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Terrestrial plant
A terrestrial plant is a plant that grows on, in, or from land.
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Theory
A theory is a rational type of abstract thinking about a phenomenon, or the results of such thinking.
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Thermohaline circulation
Thermohaline circulation (THC) is a part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density gradients created by surface heat and freshwater fluxes.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.
Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.
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Valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which typically contains a river or stream running from one end to the other.
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Water bird
A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water.
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Water cycle
The water cycle (or hydrologic cycle or hydrological cycle), is a biogeochemical cycle that involves the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. Aquatic science and water cycle are limnology and oceanography.
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Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.
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Wind wave
In fluid dynamics, a wind wave, or wind-generated water wave, is a surface wave that occurs on the free surface of bodies of water as a result of the wind blowing over the water's surface.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_science
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