User:Richard Hobbs/Seismic oceanography



Seismic Oceanography is an interdisciplinary research topic that uses the spatial resolution of the reflection seismology to address issues in oceanography. The method is sensitive to the thermohaline structure of the oceans. Where thermohaline derives from thermo- referring to temperature and -haline referring to salt content, factors which together determine the sound speed and density of sea water. In particular, the results are of interest to physical oceanographers for the study of the ocean's physical attributes including temperature-salinity structure, mixing, internal waves, tides and currents.

Sub categories

 * Background, the history and underlying physics;
 * Applications, mapping the thermohaline structure in the oceans, quantifying internal wave and turbulent spectra, estimating water movement ;

Related disciplines

 * Geophysics


 * Physical oceanography


 * Ocean dynamics