GB/T 15918-2010Oceanography general terminology (English PDF)

2.1 Ocean

2.1.1 Arctic ArcticOcean

Earth smallest and most shallow ocean, located at the northern tip of the Earth, Asia, Europe and North America surrounded with perennial of the ice sheet, an area of about

131 × 105km2 (including subsidiaries sea), with an average depth of 1296m.

2.1.2 Atlantic AtlanticOcean

The second planet ocean. From north to Cape Nordkinn Scandinavia via Iceland, through the Denmark Strait to the southern tip of Greenland connection

And Arctic boundaries; south of Antarctica; to the southeast by South Africa Cape Agulhas to Antarctica warp with Indian boundary; southwest through south

America's southernmost Cape Horn to Antarctica and the Pacific warp boundaries; west through between North and South America and the Pacific Panama Canal groove

Through; between eastern Europe and Africa through the Strait of Gibraltar by the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal as well as between Asia and Africa and Indian Ocean

Affiliated Red sea communication, an area of about 933.63 × 105km2 (including subsidiaries sea), with an average depth of 3627m.

2.1.3 Southern Ocean

Within the circle of latitude 40 °, all of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean near Antarctica parts, including Granville around Antarctica

Deer Hai, Ross Sea, the Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea and other various sea composed of non-terrestrial north, and have no fixed area waters. area

Approximately 770 × 105km2.

NOTE. In oceanography, the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean waters near Antarctica that has a special significance. It has a self-contained and independent circulation system

Water mass structural features of both the main forming region of the world ocean bottom water masses, but also on ocean circulation plays an important role. In 1970, the United Nations UNESCO Organization (UNESCO) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) under the oceanography from the perspective of the three oceans near Antarctica said contiguous waters

For the Southern Ocean. It is not a geographical sense waters.

2.1.4 Pacific PacificOcean

The largest on Earth, the deepest, the most edge of the sea and islands of the ocean. North of the Bering Strait, south to Antarctica; southeast of the southernmost tip of South America by

Cape Horn to Antarctica warp and Atlantic boundaries; Southwest border along the northern end of the Strait of Malacca began in Sumatra, Java, Nushadengjia

Madeira south coast to the south coast of the island of New Guinea cloth season, crossed the Torres Strait, Australia's Cape York sideline, and the southeast corner of Tasmania

Antarctica to warp (146 ° 51'E) and Indian boundary; an area of about 1796.79 × 105km2 (including subsidiaries sea), with an average depth of 4028m.

2.1.5 Ocean

The main part of the earth's surface interconnecting vast brackish body of water, and cover the upper part of the atmosphere and the subsoil. Usually far from the mainland, deep

Degree is generally greater than 2000m; factors such as ocean temperature, salinity and other influence from the continent, salinity is about 35, and a small annual changes; independent of the tide

Xi system and a strong ocean current system.