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Water motion
Scope note
Motion in oceans and inland water bodies
Alternative terms
UF
↸
Water movements
Broader Terms
BT
↑
Motion
More specific terms
NT1
↓
Lee eddies
NT1
↓
Meandering
►
▼
NT2
↓
Current meandering
NT1
↓
Vertical water movement
►
▼
NT2
↓
Cabbeling
NT2
↓
Cascading
NT2
↓
Downwelling
NT2
↓
Overturn
NT2
↓
Upwelling
►
▼
NT3
↓
Artificial upwelling
NT3
↓
Coastal upwelling
NT3
↓
Ekman transport
NT3
↓
Equatorial upwelling
NT1
↓
Water circulation
►
▼
NT2
↓
Lake dynamics
NT2
↓
Ocean circulation
►
▼
NT3
↓
Abyssal circulation
NT3
↓
Equatorial circulation
NT3
↓
Gyres
NT3
↓
Meridional oceanic circulation
NT3
↓
Oceanic eddies
►
▼
NT4
↓
Current rings
NT4
↓
Mesoscale eddies
NT3
↓
Thermohaline circulation
►
▼
NT4
↓
Haline circulation
NT2
↓
Shelf dynamics
►
▼
NT3
↓
Bay dynamics
NT3
↓
Estuarine dynamics
NT3
↓
Fjord dynamics
NT3
↓
Nearshore dynamics
NT3
↓
Shelf edge dynamics
NT2
↓
Surface circulation
NT2
↓
Wind-driven circulation
NT1
↓
Water currents
►
▼
NT2
↓
Bottom currents
►
▼
NT3
↓
Abyssal currents
NT3
↓
Benthic currents
NT2
↓
Boundary currents
►
▼
NT3
↓
Eastern boundary currents
NT3
↓
Western boundary currents
NT2
↓
Coastal currents
NT2
↓
Countercurrents
►
▼
NT3
↓
Coastal countercurrents
NT3
↓
Equatorial countercurrents
NT2
↓
Gradient currents
NT2
↓
Inertial currents
NT2
↓
Lake currents
NT2
↓
Nearshore currents
►
▼
NT3
↓
Longshore currents
NT3
↓
Rip currents
NT3
↓
Undertow
NT2
↓
Ocean currents
NT2
↓
Shelf currents
NT2
↓
Slope currents
NT2
↓
Stream flow
NT2
↓
Subsurface currents
►
▼
NT3
↓
Deep currents
NT2
↓
Surface currents
►
▼
NT3
↓
Contour currents
NT2
↓
Tidal currents
►
▼
NT3
↓
Ebb currents
NT3
↓
Flood currents
NT3
↓
Rotary currents
NT2
↓
Undercurrents
►
▼
NT3
↓
Equatorial undercurrents
NT3
↓
Western boundary undercurrents
NT2
↓
Wind-driven currents
Related terms
RT
⇆
Fluid dynamics
RT
⇆
Oceanic turbulence
RT
⇆
Planetary waves
RT
⇆
Transport processes
RT
⇆
Vorticity
RT
⇆
Water
RT
⇆
Water mixing
RT
⇆
Wave motion
Date of creation
07-Jan-2014
Accepted term
07-Jan-2014
Descendant terms
0
ARK
ark:/99152/t3lyvxjn1ko96d
More specific terms
5
Alternative terms
1
Related terms
8
Notes
1
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