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Topic |
Wikipedia views |
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| 1 |
Tsunami |
10,445 |
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| 2 |
Tide |
5,543 |
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| 3 |
El Niño-Southern Oscillation |
4,297 |
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| 4 |
Hawaiian Islands |
3,254 |
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| 5 |
Seawater |
2,567 |
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| 6 |
Ocean current |
1,823 |
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| 7 |
Mid-ocean ridge |
1,715 |
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| 8 |
Iceberg |
1,653 |
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| 9 |
Current sea level rise |
1,649 |
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| 10 |
La Niña |
1,575 |
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| 11 |
Continental shelf |
1,575 |
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| 12 |
Wind wave |
1,532 |
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| 13 |
Quaternary |
1,316 |
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| 14 |
Thermohaline circulation |
1,102 |
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| 15 |
Intertidal zone |
1,038 |
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| 16 |
Shoal |
1,007 |
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| 17 |
Ocean gyre |
1,003 |
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| 18 |
Biogeography |
982 |
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| 19 |
Rip current |
953 |
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| 20 |
Abyssal plain |
716 |
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| 21 |
Thermocline |
653 |
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| 22 |
Seamount |
542 |
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| 23 |
Longshore drift |
467 |
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| 24 |
Barrier island |
415 |
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| 25 |
SOSUS |
347 |
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| 26 |
Guyot |
331 |
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| 27 |
Physical oceanography |
322 |
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| 28 |
Neritic zone |
321 |
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| 29 |
North Atlantic oscillation |
315 |
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| 30 |
Rossby wave |
298 |
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| 31 |
Oceanic basin |
284 |
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| 32 |
North Pacific Gyre |
281 |
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| 33 |
Ocean engineering |
265 |
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| 34 |
Pacific decadal oscillation |
258 |
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| 35 |
Puerto Rico Trench |
243 |
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| 36 |
Hydrothermal circulation |
241 |
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| 37 |
Dispersion (water waves) |
227 |
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| 38 |
Turbidite |
218 |
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| 39 |
Oceanic zone |
218 |
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| 40 |
Pycnocline |
204 |
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| 41 |
Airy wave theory |
196 |
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| 42 |
Significant wave height |
184 |
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| 43 |
Boundary current |
176 |
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| 44 |
Wave height |
161 |
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| 45 |
Halocline |
159 |
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| 46 |
Kaikō |
156 |
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| 47 |
Wave shoaling |
156 |
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| 48 |
Kelvin wave |
154 |
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| 49 |
Friendly Floatees |
143 |
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| 50 |
Undertow (wave action) |
141 |
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| 51 |
Ocean bank (topography) |
130 |
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| 52 |
Bioturbation |
123 |
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| 53 |
Lunitidal interval |
121 |
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| 54 |
World Ocean Atlas |
119 |
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| 55 |
Argo (oceanography) |
114 |
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| 56 |
Oceanic plateau |
111 |
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| 57 |
Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis |
107 |
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| 58 |
Abyssal fan |
103 |
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| 59 |
Internal wave |
100 |
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| 60 |
Submarine earthquake |
100 |
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| 61 |
Tidal resonance |
91 |
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| 62 |
Wind wave model |
91 |
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| 63 |
Milwaukee Deep |
89 |
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| 64 |
Monterey Canyon |
85 |
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| 65 |
Water mass |
84 |
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| 66 |
Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture |
84 |
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| 67 |
North Atlantic Gyre |
76 |
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| 68 |
Langmuir circulation |
76 |
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| 69 |
South Sandwich Trench |
73 |
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| 70 |
Mixed layer |
64 |
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| 71 |
Sverdrup balance |
62 |
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| 72 |
Ocean acoustic tomography |
62 |
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| 73 |
Rossby-gravity waves |
62 |
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| 74 |
Cuspate foreland |
61 |
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| 75 |
Outer trench swell |
60 |
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| 76 |
Isopycnal |
60 |
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| 77 |
Global Ocean Data Analysis Project |
60 |
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| 78 |
Internal tide |
60 |
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| 79 |
Modular Ocean Model |
56 |
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| 80 |
Meteotsunami |
56 |
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| 81 |
Ecosystem of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre |
55 |
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| 82 |
Chemocline |
54 |
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| 83 |
Accretion (coastal management) |
54 |
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| 84 |
Hundred-year wave |
54 |
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| 85 |
Beaufort Gyre |
52 |
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| 86 |
Backwashing |
51 |
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| 87 |
Tideline |
51 |
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| 88 |
Submarine landslide |
51 |
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| 89 |
Ocean foam |
50 |
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| 90 |
Ekman current meter |
49 |
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| 91 |
World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
49 |
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| 92 |
Halothermal circulation |
48 |
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| 93 |
Region of freshwater influence |
47 |
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| 94 |
Submersion (coastal management) |
46 |
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| 95 |
Maui Nui |
41 |
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| 96 |
Microturbulence |
41 |
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| 97 |
South Pacific Gyre |
40 |
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| 98 |
Darwin Mounds |
37 |
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| 99 |
Indian Monsoon Current |
37 |
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| 100 |
Salt fingering |
35 |
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| 101 |
Ross Gyre |
34 |
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| 102 |
Ice rafting |
33 |
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| 103 |
Marine Optical Buoy |
31 |
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| 104 |
South Atlantic Gyre |
30 |
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| 105 |
Gulf Trough |
29 |
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| 106 |
Ocean Observatories Initiative |
27 |
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| 107 |
Weddell Gyre |
25 |
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| 108 |
South Pacific convergence zone |
24 |
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| 109 |
Sea surface height |
23 |
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| 110 |
Charleston Bar |
22 |
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| 111 |
Indian Ocean Gyre |
22 |
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| 112 |
Tsunami Society |
21 |
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| 113 |
Muirfield Seamount |
20 |
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| 114 |
Black Sea undersea river |
20 |
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| 115 |
Florida Platform |
18 |
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| 116 |
Secondary circulation |
17 |
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| 117 |
Wind stress |
17 |
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| 118 |
ABISMO |
16 |
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| 119 |
MyOcean |
15 |
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| 120 |
Antarctic Circumpolar Wave |
14 |
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| 121 |
Pacific-North American teleconnection pattern |
14 |
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| 122 |
Hawaii Ocean Time-series |
14 |
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| 123 |
Hough function |
13 |
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| 124 |
Eratosthenes Seamount |
10 |
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| 125 |
Glacio-geological databases |
10 |
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| 126 |
Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel |
10 |
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| 127 |
Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study |
8 |
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| 128 |
Subtropical Front |
7 |
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| 129 |
Tasman Outflow |
7 |
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| 130 |
Flaw lead |
7 |
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| 131 |
Lithogenic silica |
6 |
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| 132 |
Deep sea physical oceanography |
less than 5 views |
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| 133 |
Parallel Ocean Program |
less than 5 views |
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| 134 |
Ice drift |
less than 5 views |
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| 135 |
MIT General Circulation Model |
less than 5 views |
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| 136 |
Shore lead |
less than 5 views |
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| 137 |
Submarine topographical features |
less than 5 views |
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