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proposed ENVO classes:

Material ideas and information to be harvested into ENVO.

temporarily moved here

typical or measurable sea water

//Something along these lines. A potential new ENVO class to be created representing the fact that the average or typical seawater has a variety of constituent parts to it nutrients, temperature salinity etc. //Still not sure what to do about this one. is a seawater

currents and water masses:

marine current flow

//Change ENVO:marine current to a process:

A marine current flow is a continuous, directed movement of marine water generated by the forces acting upon this mean flow, such as breaking waves, wind, Coriolis force, temperature and salinity differences and tides caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun. Depth contours, shoreline configurations and interaction with other currents influence a current's direction and strength.

is a water flow process // also give it a process quality concerning velocity or movement rate

marine current

//make a new continuant that is called marine current

A hydroform which is part of a marine water body and which overlaps the continuous, directed movement of marine water generated by the forces acting upon that water body. 

overlaps a marine current flow process is a hydroform

//existing envo term def:

A mass of marine water.

new def:

A marine water body which is distinguishable from its surrounding waters, bearing distinctive physical properties such as temperature, salinity, and chemical isotopic ratios inhered during its formation process. 

marine water mass formation

A material accumulation process during which water bearing the chemical properties of a distinct spatiotemporal region, namely temperature and salinity aggregates, forming a distinct marine water mass.

material accumulation process 'results in formation of' some 'marine water mass'

xref

// existing term to fit into puzzle.

marine wind mixed layer deepening

//process for deepening of marine wind mixed layer //causally downstream of a process shrinking the ENVO:marine photic zone synonym water column mixed layer deepening``

marine wind mixed layer shallowing

//process

stratified water body

A water body which is characterized by distinct layers of water masses of different densities which result from chemical properties of the water such as salinity, temperature and oxygenation. 

is a water body 'has part' some 'cline' 'has part' some 'marine water body' //how do I say has min 2 marine water body? comment

A stratified water mass can serve as a barrier to vertical water mixing processes, potentially hindering the mixing of nutrients and oxygen between water layers, leading to anoxia and or oligotrophic surface waters.

water body stratification

'has synonym` stratification

halocline

A layer within a fluid where the salinity composition changes rapidly with depth.

``is a 'chemocline'

xref

marine halocline

A halocline caused by a strong, vertical salinity gradient within a body of marine water. 

``is a 'halocline'

comment:

Because salinity affects the density of seawater, a halocline can increase vertical stratification in a water body. xref

halocline formation process

halocline collapse

themocline formation process

themocline collapse

Biogenic particle flux & carbon pump classes:

marine carbon export process

//for the carbon pump // is a material transport process //plankton bloom causually upstream of this

marine snow

//marine particles

marine snow formation

//particle aggregation process

marine snow sinking

// marine particle sinking process

sea ice related classes:

sea ice advection

sea ice cover

Quality of a marine water body which inheres in a water body by virtue of the interface of that water body and the atmosphere being interrupted by sea ice.  

has exact synonym sea ice coverage

sea ice melting

is a ENVO:seasonal melting process

solar radiation & photosynthesis classes:

// should be improved upon for area of photic radiation etc.

solar radiation

light penetration depth of marine water body

primary productivity

marine primary productivity

terrestrial primary productivity

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