iPedia Free Information Center

Information about Sea Water

The three-letter acronym SEA may refer to: In sporting event reporting: See also: Sea and seas

This article is about the body of water. For other uses, see SEA and seas. For the ancient Jewish unit of volume, see Seah (unit). For the Smirnoff advertising campaign, see Sea (Smirnoff advert)


A sea is either a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. The term is used colloquially as synonymous with ocean, as in "the tropical sea" or "down to the sea shore", or even "sea water" to refer to water of the ocean. Large lakes, such as the Great Lakes, are sometimes referred to as inland seas. Many seas are marginal seas, in which currents are caused by ocean winds; others are mediterranean seas, in which currents are caused by differences in salinity and temperature.

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is the world authority when it comes to defining seas. The current defining document is the Special publication S-23, Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition, 1953. The second edition dated back to 1937, and the first to 1928. A fourth edition draft was published in 1986 but so far several naming disputes (such as the one over the Sea of Japan) have prevented its ratification.

List of seas (by ocean)

Atlantic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

Indian Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Southern Ocean

Landlocked seas

† Not listed in IHO S-23 4th ed.

Ambiguous terminology

Some bodies of water that are called "seas" are not actually seas; there are also some seas that are not called "seas". The following is an incomplete list of such potentially confusing names.
  • The Sea of Galilee is a small freshwater lake with a natural outlet, which is properly called Lake Tiberias or Lake Kinneret on modern Israeli maps, but its archaic name remains in use.
  • The Sea of Cortés is more commonly known as the Gulf of California.
  • The Persian Gulf is a sea.
  • The Dead Sea is actually a lake, as is the Caspian Sea.

Extraterrestrial seas

See also Oceans Beyond Earth


Lunar maria are vast basaltic plains on the Moon that were thought to be bodies of water by early astronomers, who referred to them as "seas".

Liquid water may have existed on the surface of Mars in the distant past, and several basins on Mars have been proposed as dry sea beds. The largest is Vastitas Borealis; others include Hellas Planitia and Argyre Planitia.

Liquid water is thought to be present under the surface of several moons, most notably Europa.

Liquid hydrocarbons are thought to be present on the surface of Titan, though it may be more accurate to describe them as "lakes" rather than "seas".

Science

The term "sea" has also been used in quantum physics. Dirac sea is an interpretation of the negative energy states that comprises the vacuum.

See also

Scientists and Engineers for America

Smart Leadership for a Change

Type of Organization 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Advocacy Group
Headquarters Washington, D.C.
Location U.S.A.
..... Click the link for more information.
The Schoof-Elkies-Atkin algorithm (SEA) is an algorithm used for finding the order of or calculating the number of points on an elliptic curve over a finite field. Its primary application is in elliptic curve cryptography.
..... Click the link for more information.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (IATA: SEA, ICAO: KSEA, FAA LID: SEA), also known as Sea-Tac Airport, is located in SeaTac, Washington, United States at the intersections of Washington State Route 518, Washington State Route 99 and
..... Click the link for more information.
International Civil Aviation Organization

The ICAO flag

Formation April 1947
Headquarters Montreal, Canada
Membership 190 member states
Official languages Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish
Secretary General Taïeb Chérif
..... Click the link for more information.
The Single European Act (SEA) was the first major revision of the Treaty of Rome that formally established the single European market and the European Political Cooperation.
..... Click the link for more information.
Socialist Environmental Alliance

Leader Goretti Horgan

Founded 2003
Headquarters Derry, Northern Ireland

Political Ideology Socialism, Environmentalism
Political Position Far left
International Affiliation
..... Click the link for more information.
Société d'Etudes Aéronautiques ("Society for Aeronautical Studies") was the name of two different an unrelated firms involved in aircraft design and manufacture:
  • a French firm, founded in 1916 by Henry Potez, Marcel Bloch, and Louis Coroller

..... Click the link for more information.
S. mansoni

Binomial name
Schistosoma mansoni
Sambon, 1907

Schistosoma mansoni is a significant parasite of humans.
..... Click the link for more information.


Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, and north of Australia.
..... Click the link for more information.
The Southern Economic Association is a regional-based economic organization based at Oklahoma State University. It publishes the Southern Economic Journal.

External links

  • SEA Website

..... Click the link for more information.
A state education agency (SEA), or state department of education, is a formal governmental label for the state-level government agencies within each U.S. state responsible for providing information, resources, and technical assistance on educational matters to schools and
..... Click the link for more information.
The Statistical Energy Analysis or SEA is a method for predicting vibration transmission in dynamical systems made of coupled acoustic cavities and structures. The vibrational behavior of the system is described in the energy domain.
..... Click the link for more information.
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a system of incorporating environmental considerations into policies, plans and programmes. It is sometimes referred to as Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment.
..... Click the link for more information.
Svensk Elektrobil AB (SEA) was a Swedish company that made electric vehicles.
..... Click the link for more information.
ARC

File extension: .arc
.ark
.sue
MIME type: application/octet-stream
Developed by: System Enhancement Associates
Type of format: Data compression

ARC
..... Click the link for more information.
Seattle Seahawks
Year founded: 1976

Helmet Logo
City Seattle, Washington
Other nicknames The Hawks
Team colors Pacific Blue, Navy Blue, Neon Green, White
Head Coach Mike Holmgren
Owner Paul Allen
..... Click the link for more information.
Seattle Mariners Established 1977

Team Logo Cap Insignia
Major league affiliations
  • American League (1977–present)
  • West Division (1977–present)

..... Click the link for more information.
Seattle SuperSonics

Conference Western Conference
Division Northwest Division
Founded 1967
History Seattle SuperSonics
(1967–present)
Arena KeyArena
City Seattle, Washington
Team Colors
..... Click the link for more information.
SEAS may mean:
  • The plural of "sea." See sea
  • The Norwegian loudspeaker brand SEAS
  • Shipboard Environmental (data) Acquisition System: a program developed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide accurate meteorological and oceanographic

..... Click the link for more information.
SEAS may mean:
  • The plural of "sea." See sea
  • The Norwegian loudspeaker brand SEAS
  • Shipboard Environmental (data) Acquisition System: a program developed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide accurate meteorological and oceanographic

..... Click the link for more information.
Seah is a unit of dry volume of ancient origin used in Halakha (Jewish religious law), which equals one third of an epha, or bath. Since the bath unit has been established to be 22 litre, 1 sea equals 7,33 liter or 7,33dm3.
..... Click the link for more information.
Smirnoff started as a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The Smirnoff brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. It is now owned by English drinks giant Diageo.
..... Click the link for more information.
Official website
Sea is an advertising campaign launched by Diageo in 2007 to promote Smirnoff brand vodka. It centres around a 60-second commercial created by JWT, which premiered on 17 August 2007 in showings of The Bourne Ultimatum
..... Click the link for more information.
Salinity is the saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of water. Salinity in Australian English and North American English may refer to salt in soil (see soil salination).

Definition


Water salinity
Fresh water Brackish water Saline water Brine
..... Click the link for more information.
Earth's oceans
(World Ocean)
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Southern Ocean
An ocean (from Ωκεανός, Okeanos
..... Click the link for more information.
lake (from Latin ligacus) is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size contained on a body of land. A vast majority of lakes on Earth are fresh water, and most lie in the Northern Hemisphere at higher latitudes.
..... Click the link for more information.
Coordinates Coordinates:
Lake type Endorheic
Saline
Permanent
Natural
Primary sources Volga River

..... Click the link for more information.
Coordinates Coordinates:
Lake type endorheic
hypersaline
Primary sources Jordan River

..... Click the link for more information.
Seawater is water from a sea or ocean. On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of ~3.5%, or 35 parts per thousand. This means that every 1 kg of seawater has approximately 35 grams of dissolved salts (mostly, but not entirely, the ions of sodium chloride: Na
..... Click the link for more information.
Great Lakes are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada–United States border. They are the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth. The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system is the largest freshwater system in the world.
..... Click the link for more information.


This article is copied from an article on Wikipedia.org - the free encyclopedia created and edited by online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of the wikipedia encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.
Herod_Archelaus


page counter