Sentences with phrase «oceanic basins»

Oceanic basins refer to the large depressions or hollow areas on the Earth's surface that are filled with seawater. They are vast regions in the ocean where the ocean floor is deeper than the surrounding areas. These basins are like huge bowls or containers that hold the water of the ocean. Full definition
«Floating plastic litter can be ingested or entangle marine life, and carry invasive organisms across oceanic basins,» says Matthew Cole of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK.
The Southern Ocean is unique in that it is comprised of the southern-most sectors of the major oceanic basins.
The US CLIVAR Eastern Tropical Oceans Synthesis (ETOS) Working Group was formed to promote collaboration in the southeast oceanic basins, coordinate a model assessment of surface flux errors for the equatorial Atlantic, identify recent model improvements and common and persistent model errors, and provide recommendations of cases for community simulation and evaluation using eddy - permitting ocean models.
As you know I am nervous about applying global averages to something like sea level, as all the levels in the various oceanic basins are rising or falling at different rates, greatly complicated by what the land might be doing.
Since swells originate from massive storms in different parts of the oceanic basin, the corresponding swell angle will reflect the original location of the storm.
An underwater ridge, the Lomonosov Ridge, divides the deep sea North Polar Basin into two oceanic basins: the Eurasian Basin, which is between 4,000 and 4,500 m (13,100 and 14,800 ft) deep, and the Amerasian Basin (sometimes called the North American, or Hyperborean Basin), which is about 4,000 m (13,000 ft) deep.
GIA assumes that basically all land is rebounding from long ago glaciations and oceanic basins are deepening.
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