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  2. Buoyancy - Wikipedia

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    Examples of buoyancy driven flows include the spontaneous separation of air and water or oil and water. Buoyancy is a function of the force of gravity or other source of acceleration on objects of different densities, and for that reason is considered an apparent force, in the same way that centrifugal force is an apparent force as a function ...

  3. Aquatic locomotion - Wikipedia

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    This is because temperature not only affects the properties of the water, but also the organisms in the water, as most have an ideal range specific to their body and metabolic needs. Q10 (temperature coefficient) , the factor by which a rate increases at a 10 °C increase in temperature, is used to measure how organisms' performance relies on ...

  4. Stratification (water) - Wikipedia

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    The driving force in stratification is gravity, which sorts adjacent arbitrary volumes of water by local density, operating on them by buoyancy and weight.A volume of water of lower density than the surroundings will have a resultant buoyant force lifting it upwards, and a volume with higher density will be pulled down by the weight which will be greater than the resultant buoyant forces ...

  5. Downwelling - Wikipedia

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    Buoyancy-forced downwelling, often termed convection, is the deepening of a water parcel due to a change in the density of that parcel.Density changes in the surface ocean are primarily the result of evaporation, precipitation, heating, cooling, or the introduction and mixing of an alternate water or salinity source, such as river input or brine rejection.

  6. Convection (heat transfer) - Wikipedia

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    Also, they do affect the flow and heat transfer characteristics, thereby behaving differently from straight smooth surfaces. [ 5 ] For a visual experience of natural convection, a glass filled with hot water and some red food dye may be placed inside a fish tank with cold, clear water.

  7. Oceanic physical-biological process - Wikipedia

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    Water forms the ocean, produces the high density fluid environment and greatly affects the oceanic organisms. Sea water produces buoyancy and provides support for plants and animals. That's the reason why in the ocean organisms can be that huge like the blue whale and macrophytes. And the densities or rigidities of the oceanic organisms are ...

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  9. Open ocean convection - Wikipedia

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    Open ocean convection is a process in which the mesoscale ocean circulation and large, strong winds mix layers of water at different depths. Fresher water lying over the saltier or warmer over the colder leads to the stratification of water, or its separation into layers. Strong winds cause evaporation, so the ocean surface cools, weakening the ...