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[sur-fihs lay-ur]<\/strong>
The layer of water located above the thermocline<\/a>. It is referred to as the mixed layer because this is where winds and waves stir up the water. This layer is also highly influenced by solar energy<\/a> (from the sun) heating up the water. The temperature<\/a> is roughly that of the air above it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The layer of water located above the thermocline. It is referred to as the mixed layer because this is where winds and waves stir up the water. This layer is also highly influenced by solar energy (from the sun) heating up the water. The temperature is roughly that of the air above it.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[],"glossary-tags":[],"glossary-languages":[],"class_list":["post-1303","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"post_title":"Surface Layer","post_content":"\n

[sur-fihs lay-ur]<\/strong>
The layer of water located above the thermocline. It is referred to as the mixed layer because this is where winds and waves stir up the water. This layer is also highly influenced by solar energy (from the sun) heating up the water. The temperature is roughly that of the air above it.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amy-lifterlms.wisdmlabs.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amy-lifterlms.wisdmlabs.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amy-lifterlms.wisdmlabs.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amy-lifterlms.wisdmlabs.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amy-lifterlms.wisdmlabs.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amy-lifterlms.wisdmlabs.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amy-lifterlms.wisdmlabs.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amy-lifterlms.wisdmlabs.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-languages","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amy-lifterlms.wisdmlabs.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-languages?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}