water to be turbid can be composed of many things, including sediments and phytoplankton. There are a number of ways to measure ocean turbidity, including...

initiation mechanism for turbidity currents. Large and fast-moving turbidity currents can carve gulleys and ravines into the ocean floor of continental margins...

a turbidity reading), a correlation between turbidity and total suspended solids (TSS) is somewhat unusual for each location or situation. Turbidity in...

Iron fertilization Marine snow Ocean nourishment Oceanic physical-biological process Primary production Ocean turbidity Photophore Thorson's rule Upwelling...

depending upon water depth and shoreline features. The oceanic zone is the vast open part of the ocean where animals such as whales, sharks, and tuna live...

centimetres in highly turbid eutrophic lakes, to around 200 meters in the open ocean. It also varies with seasonal changes in turbidity, which can be strongly...

aquatic system based on the temperature of different lake layers. The less turbid the water, the more light is able to penetrate, and thus heat is conveyed...

lagoons and bays with narrow openings to the ocean. A different effect is the thousands of square miles of the ocean which shine with the light produced by...

become hypoxic. Particle levels in water (or air) can be measured with a turbidity meter and analyzed with a particle counter. They can also be scanned with...

Iron fertilization Marine snow Ocean nourishment Oceanic physical-biological process Primary production Ocean turbidity Photophore Thorson's rule Upwelling...

Iron fertilization Marine snow Ocean nourishment Oceanic physical-biological process Primary production Ocean turbidity Photophore Thorson's rule Upwelling...

bottom of the lake or ocean from overlying waters. The depth of the aphotic zone can be greatly affected by such things as turbidity and the season of the...

A turbidite is the geologic deposit of a turbidity current, which is a type of amalgamation of fluidal and sediment gravity flow responsible for distributing...

topography – The shape of the ocean surface relative to the geoid Ocean turbidity – A measure of the amount of cloudiness or haziness in sea water caused...

Iron fertilization Marine snow Ocean nourishment Oceanic physical-biological process Primary production Ocean turbidity Photophore Thorson's rule Upwelling...

Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans and large lakes. Hypoxia occurs when dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration falls to or below...

oysters and mussels, such as the Mussel Watch program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Over the next two decades, the effects...

so unique that it warrants its own current type. This is the turbidity current. Turbidity current is caused when the density of water is increased by sediment...

list of watersheds Drainage basins of the Atlantic Ocean category Drainage basins of the Arctic Ocean category Watersheds of Canada category Watersheds...

the upper ocean to increase marine food production and to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Ocean turbidity – Ocean turbidity is a measure...

can be made of volcanic ash and terrigenous sediments transported by turbidity currents. Layer 2 could be divided into two parts: layer 2A – 0.5 km thick...

(DOC) Ocean turbidity Secchi disk Hoge, FE; Vodacek, A; Swift, RN; Yungel, JK; Blough, NV (October 1995). "Inherent optical properties of the ocean: retrieval...

Iron fertilization Marine snow Ocean nourishment Oceanic physical-biological process Primary production Ocean turbidity Photophore Thorson's rule Upwelling...

environments as influenced by plate tectonics and seafloor spreading, turbidity, currents, sediments, pH levels, atmospheric constituents, metamorphic...

current in a river or stream Ocean current Longshore current Boundary current Rip current Rip tide Subsurface currents Turbidity current Tidal current Laminar...

Nitrate Methane Ocean current Single Point Water Column Ocean tracers Oxygen Phytoplankton Salinity Sigma-T Sound Velocity Temperature Turbidity There is a...

Among many environments that are under the impact of mercury pollution, the ocean is one which cannot be neglected as it has the ability to act as a "storage...

vegetation. Turbidity is a measure of the cloudiness of water based on light scattering by particles at a 90-degree angle to the detector. A turbidity sensor...

Iron fertilization Marine snow Ocean nourishment Oceanic physical-biological process Primary production Ocean turbidity Photophore Thorson's rule Upwelling...

downwelling irradiance, Kd (often used as an index of water clarity or ocean turbidity) is defined as an AOP (or quasi-AOP), while the absorption coefficient...