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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Dynamics_Sequence, ocean mixed layers, vertical mixing by small scale turbulence and double diffusion ???? Montgomery potential, Natural coordinates and balanced flows: geostrophic, inertial, cyclostrophic, gradient ???? Trajectories and streamlines, Ocean-Atmosphere and Ocean-Land properties ???? Fundamental forces for inertial frame of reference: pressure gradient, gravitational, and friction forces, planetary Rossby waves ???? trapped waves: edge waves, Kelvin waves, and continental shelf waves, Governing equations and boundary conditions for wave motions in the ocean ???? surface gravity waves, phase speed and group velocity, Coastal and estuarine circulation including rip currents, river discharge, coastal storms, storm surges ???? Semi-enclosed seas in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, inertial-internal waves ???? beta-plane approximation, Hydrostatic balance, stability and small-scale mixing ???? Geostrophy and dynamic topography, Lagrangian and Eulerian frames of reference and derivatives ???? Balance equations for scalar quantities like humidity and salinity, governing equations for the ocean ???? hydrostatic and geostrophic approximations, Polar regional circulation including Arctic and Antarctic water masses, topography, circulation, sea ice distribution and oscillations ???? Equatorial regional circulation including Pacific and Atlantic winds, currents, circulation patterns, upwelling, and water mass structure: Indian Ocean circulation; El Nino and La Nina, Stommel Arons theory ???? effects of ocean stratification, Thermal Wind ???? Instability of Geophyscal flows, Barotropic and Baroclinic Components ???? Eddy Viscosity and diffusion, Pressure coordinates conversion ???? Isentropic coordinates, beta-plane approximation ???? equatorially trapped waves, Properties of a static atmosphere or ocean: equation of state and hydrostatic balance ???? properties of a material derivative, Instability of Geophyscal flows ???? Ekman numbers, spiral, transport, pumping, layer, surface gravity waves, phase speed and group velocity ???? observations of ocean surface waves, both dispersive (wind waves) and non-dispersive (tsunamis), Formation and distribution of water masses ???? Polar regional circulation including Arctic and Antarctic water masses, topography, circulation, sea ice distribution and oscillations