Unanswered Questions
122 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Using radar to measure ocean waves along the shoreline
What radar technology would be best to measure the attributes of ocean waves near (under 2k distance) the shoreline?
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Is the southern downwelling situation in the AMOC as affected by climate change as the two northern downwelling situations?
我想知道南方下降的情形n in the AMOC is affected by climate change as much as the two northern situations. I come to the question because I find the Cicrumantarctic circulation ...
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Sea waves with perpendicular discontinuity
This is a sea/ocean wave image which can be found in several places on the internet. I cannot find its origin and any image search did not yield conclusive results. It may even be a render. Question: ...
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IPCC 6 - What's the background of possible marine species loss?
The Figure "Projected risks and impacts of climate change on natural and human systems at different global warming levels" has this to say on species loss (only part of the image): I can't ...
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How saline were the earth's oceans during the Last Glacial Maximum?
According to Wikipedia sea water is 34.7 parts per thousand salt. Between evaporation and precipitation it seems like this amount is kept largely in equilibrium but, during the last glacial maximum, a ...
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How does the Coriolis effect explain Ekman transport?
Before answering the question, keep in mind that I am a second year Biology student, with no experience in studying Physics and a very basic understanding of Mathematics. Thus, I would prefer a ...
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Ocean oscillations with long time periods
I heard that some ocean oscillations act on a time scale of a millennium. Is this true, or at least argued by some oceanographers? If so, what are they and what causes them? If not, what are the ...
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Hurricane/Cyclone movement direction
I know that, hurricanes/cyclones move from east to west because they are caught up in the trade winds, which blow from east to west near the equator. Once a hurricane/cyclone moves north of about 30 ...
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Geostrophic adjustment with shallow water equations
The linearized f-plane shallow water equations are:du'/dt - fv' = -g(d eta'/dx) dv'/dt + fu' = -g(d eta'/dy) (d eta'/dt) + H((du'/dx)+(dv'/dy)) = 0where g is ...
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Earthquake clustering by pairs algorithm questions
A program I'm writing does the following: (EQ=earthquake, EV=event, ML=machinelearning, etc) from a time series (in a selected station) it picks pairs of EQ' EVs with similar characteristics (...
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How do you determine the % of precipitation falling as snow in the case below?
I have just started a course in hydrology (a totally different field from mine which is computer science) and I can't find the link between the fact that a river flows into a lake and the % of ...
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Beaufort wind force measure
Beaufort scale relates wind speed and wave height of the ocean surface. Does the wave height in the scale refer to significant wave height or mean wave height?
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Ranges of Ocean wave number and Ocean wave frequency
I am new to oceanography. As per the practical scenario, what is the range of wave number and wave frequency values? Thanks in advance.
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Why does decreasing surface alkalinity increase surface pCO2?
According to Takahashi et al. (1993), pCO2 (partial pressure of CO2) in the surface ocean changes due to 4 surface variables: temperature, salinity, total carbon (dissolved inorganic carbon, DIC) and ...
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Meteorology and Deep Learning, where to start?
I come from a background in research in pure Mathematics and, after a period of self-learning, I am currently looking for a career in Deep Learning. I recently applied for a job in Deep Learning and ...