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Sediment Transport Instrumentation Facility The Sediment Transport Instrumentation Facility at USGS Woods Hole Field Center maintains and deploys oceanographic instrumentation for the study of coastal and ocean circulation and sediment transport. (Score: 0.690)

Toxic Red Tide Populations in the Western Gulf of Maine: Sources, Transport, and Nutrient Environment (Score: 0.400)

Coastal ocean modeling at the USGS Woods Hole Field Center Fly-by and circulation movies, effluent concentration, tidal flushing, sea level, and temperature in Massachusetts Bay and Boston Harbor (Score: 0.374)

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About ocean circulation:

Definition: Large scale horizontal water motion within an ocean. [McGraw Hill Dic. of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed.]

Used for: circulation (ocean)