The (oceanic) water column is a concept used in oceanography to describe the physical (temperature, salinity, light penetration) and chemical (pH, dissolved... 3 KB (286 words) - 17:20, 3 January 2024 |
organs. The largest possible design of a water engine is the directly acting water-column engine or water column machine (German: Wassersäulenmaschine)... 7 KB (937 words) - 15:14, 17 March 2024 |
Oscillating water columns (OWCs) are a type of wave energy converter that harness energy from the oscillation of the seawater inside a chamber or hollow... 10 KB (1,146 words) - 10:11, 2 June 2022 |
Inches of water is a non-SI unit for pressure. It is also given as inches of water gauge (iwg or in.w.g.), inches water column (inch wc, in. WC, " wc,... 3 KB (371 words) - 18:40, 6 March 2024 |
Pelagic zone (redirect from Pelagic water) The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth. The word pelagic is derived from Ancient... 14 KB (1,445 words) - 07:29, 8 April 2024 |
head of water. A centimetre of water is a unit of pressure. It may be defined as the pressure exerted by a column of water of 1 cm in height at 4 °C (temperature... 6 KB (403 words) - 07:57, 12 March 2024 |
chemical, and biological processes that supply nutrients into the upper water column. The photic zone is home to the majority of aquatic life due to the activity... 25 KB (2,961 words) - 21:42, 17 April 2024 |
Environmental DNA (section Aquatic (water column)) Studying eDNA in the water column can indicate the community composition of a body of water. Before eDNA, the main ways to study open water diversity was to... 131 KB (13,420 words) - 03:06, 20 March 2024 |
Estuary (category Bodies of water) seawater and freshwater provides high levels of nutrients both in the water column and in sediment, making estuaries among the most productive natural habitats... 41 KB (4,795 words) - 07:53, 17 April 2024 |
Wave power (section Oscillating water column) house in Royan, France. It appears that this was the first oscillating water-column type of wave-energy device. From 1855 to 1973 there were 340 patents... 54 KB (5,836 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024 |
Hypoxia (environmental) (redirect from Hypoxia (water)) throughout the water column and also at high altitudes as well as near sediments on the bottom. It usually extends throughout 20-50% of the water column, but depends... 17 KB (1,977 words) - 01:27, 17 April 2024 |
part of the sea or ocean (or deep lake) consisting of the part of the water column near to (and significantly affected by) the seabed and the benthos. The... 6 KB (755 words) - 22:53, 1 October 2022 |
Ocean (category Articles using infobox body of water without alt) conditions. The pelagic zone is the open ocean's water column from the surface to the ocean floor. The water column is further divided into zones based on depth... 128 KB (17,470 words) - 06:23, 16 April 2024 |
The apparent intensity of the color increases with the depth of the water column, following Beer's law. This also applies, for example, with a swimming... 165 KB (19,424 words) - 20:20, 18 April 2024 |
sometimes called marine snow, sinks in the water column or is transported within downward convected water masses such as the Thermohaline Circulation... 49 KB (5,362 words) - 15:35, 15 April 2024 |
Aquatic plant (redirect from Water plant) surface of the water. Some still-water plants can alter their position in the water column at different seasons. One notable example is Water soldier which... 34 KB (3,795 words) - 16:36, 15 April 2024 |
the water column due to buoyancy, forming a hydrothermal plume; therefore, the phase during which hydrothermal plumes rise through the water column is... 114 KB (13,375 words) - 05:55, 15 April 2024 |
Precipitable water is the depth of water in a column of the atmosphere, if all the water in that column were precipitated as rain. As a depth, the precipitable... 4 KB (427 words) - 06:26, 14 August 2023 |
female discharges them into the water. The larvae develop in about six hours and exist suspended in the water column as veliger larvae for two to three... 65 KB (7,107 words) - 18:10, 17 April 2024 |
column provides numerous gradients, depending on additive nutrients, from which the variety of aforementioned organisms can grow. The aerobic water phase... 5 KB (616 words) - 18:58, 2 March 2024 |
Port (redirect from Warm water port) sediments into the water column, and can stir up pollutants captured in the sediments. Invasive species are often spread by the bilge water and species attached... 29 KB (3,272 words) - 08:18, 13 April 2024 |