Low-frequency infragravity waves shape shorelines, but exactly how they contribute is mysterious. A technique from Bayesian probability theory might change that.
surface waves & tides
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Waves Play a Key Role for Lateral Stirring and Mixing of Ocean Tracers
Numerical models and theoretical considerations deliver new insights on how waves affect the movement of tracers in wave-rich environments.
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Did Ocean Motion Carve Enceladus’s Tiger Stripes?
Wobbles of the moon’s icy shell may set off waves in the subsurface ocean that sculpt water-spewing fissures from beneath.
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The Under-the-Radar Creeks That Are Sweeping Carbon Out of Salt Marshes
Transport via tidal creeks is a “major and often underrecognized” pathway of carbon in the coastal wetlands, and a gap in most blue carbon assessments, new research reports.
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How Bubbles Reshape Air-Sea Gas Exchange
Bubbles produced by breaking waves provide an important but often overlooked pathway for exchanging carbon dioxide, oxygen, and other gases between the ocean and atmosphere.
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How Tides and River Water Combine to Amplify Floods
Tidal subharmonics help push water levels higher in tidal rivers.
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Tracking 20 Years of Productivity in Tidal Wetlands
A new study suggests warming temperatures and increased solar radiation have boosted carbon fixation in tidal wetlands across the country.
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What Winds Whip Up Otherworldly Waves?
New research goes back to the basics to explain how atmospheric conditions affect the creation of wind-driven waves on other worlds.
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Gravity Waves Help Drive Sediment to the Deep Ocean
Laboratory experiments reveal that gravity wave-turbidity current interactions (combined flows) can enhance sediment transport to the deep ocean.
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How Internal Waves Transport Energy Thousands of Miles Across the Ocean
For the first time, researchers model energy fluxes from these large-scale underwater waves in and around the Southern Ocean.