How to Use bathymetry in a Sentence

bathymetry

noun

• The shape and depth of the ocean floor is called the bathymetry.
  — Sally Warner, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2020
• This is also the point in which the unique swirling shape in the bathymetry off Pillar Point comes into play.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2020
• When shallow bathymetry slows down a part of a wave, this causes the waves to refract.
  — Sally Warner, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2020
• The particular bathymetry of the seafloor here means waves tend to break steeply.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 5 Jan. 2021
• Winds pried apart homes board by board and what didn’t fly away, was drowned in the estimated 24.6-foot storm surge honed by the bathymetry of the coastline.
  — Kimberly Miller, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• The company chose Grand Passage for its New World debut because the channel’s bathymetry is known, the water runs fast and clear, and the site is easily accessed.
  — Greta Rybus, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
• This technique can measure the depth of the sea floor (bathymetry) and the backscatter, which indicates the intensity of the returning echoes detected by the array.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2022
• Sonar helps scientists map the bathymetry of the ocean in exquisite detail, but current coverage is patchy.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
• The first one below shows the bathymetry (seafloor topography) for the Canadian/Greenland side of the Lomonosov Ridge with some simple annotation.
  — Brian Romans, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2010
• Modern ships like those that will be employed by Seabed 2030 are outfitted with multibeam bathymetry systems.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 13 July 2017
• Modern ships like those that will be employed by Seabed 2030 are outfitted with multibeam bathymetry systems.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 13 July 2017
• The Pacific contains hundreds of islands and seamounts with suitable bathymetry, and a map of potential targets generated by the scientists is splotched with red.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
• MD: The smaller robots have acoustic depth sounders for gathering bathymetry of the vent region, surface water temperature sensors, accelerometers, and cameras.
  — Nora Rappaport, National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2017
• However, mapping bathymetry many fathoms deep with sufficient resolution would require equipment that simply can’t fit on MAS as it is currently configured, said Phaneuf.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024