Water motion

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Water motion

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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

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Date of creation

07-Jan-2014

Accepted term

07-Jan-2014

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