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Mixing in the ocean: laboratory demonstrations simulate processes occurring within the ocean. -- El Nino 1982/83: sequence compiled from long term infrared measurements of surface ocean temperatur...es collected by polar orbiting satellites to create a continuous synoptic view of sea surface temperatures, the El Nino event is particularly evident. -- Salt rejection: laboratory demonstration showing how droplets of very saline water sink beneath ice forming at the sea surface. -- Plankton: demonstration of the use of a trawled plankton net and an attempt to distinguish plants, animals and larval stages under a microscope. -- Rocky shores and Benthic communities: A time lapse sequence showing large and small tidal excursions & a look at the rich benthic community of animals that graze on seaweeds or detritus on the seabed. -- Waves: laboratory teank demonstration of the basic characteristics of waves in fluids & an electronic display to demonstarte the formation of a wave group. -- Waves across the Pacific: the story of the classic investigation of dispersion across an ocean. -- Estuaries: a discussion into how physical processes such as ocean tides influence the movement of river water and sediments & an investigation into some of the burrowing organisms that live in sand banks of the Tay estuary.
Mixing in the ocean: laboratory demonstrations simulate processes occurring within the ocean. -- El Nino 1982/83: sequence compiled from long term infrared measurements of surface ocean temperatur...es collected by polar orbiting satellites to create a continuous synoptic view of sea surface temperatures, the El Nino event is particularly evident. -- Salt rejection: laboratory demonstration showing how droplets of very saline water sink beneath ice forming at the sea surface. -- Plankton: demonstration of the use of a trawled plankton net and an attempt to distinguish plants, animals and larval stages under a microscope. -- Rocky shores and Benthic communities: A time lapse sequence showing large and small tidal excursions & a look at the rich benthic community of animals that graze on seaweeds or detritus on the seabed. -- Waves: laboratory teank demonstration of the basic characteristics of waves in fluids & an electronic display to demonstarte the formation of a wave group. -- Waves across the Pacific: the story of the classic investigation of dispersion across an ocean. -- Estuaries: a discussion into how physical processes such as ocean tides influence the movement of river water and sediments & an investigation into some of the burrowing organisms that live in sand banks of the Tay estuary.
| Module code and title: | S330, Oceanography |
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| Item code: | S330; VCR1 |
| First transmission date: | 1989 |
| Published: | 1989 |
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| Duration: | 01:00:17 |
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| Producer: | Tony Jolly |
| Contributors: | Walter Munk; John Nicholls; John Wright |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Equatorial Kelvin Wave; Firth of Tay; FLIP; Plankton; Plumes; Pycnocline; Tides; Wave formation |
| Master spool number: | DOU8257 |
| Production number: | FOUS810D |
| Videofinder number: | 5110 |
| Available to public: | no |
