- Industry: Education
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Founded in 1876, Texas A&M University is a U.S. public and comprehensive university offering a wide variety of academic programs far beyond its original label of agricultural and mechanical trainings. It is one of the few institutions holding triple federal designations as a land-, sea- and ...
A function (or mapping) from the sample space of possible outcomes of a random experiment to the real line, the complex plane, or some other such mappable entity. Basically, it’s a variable denoting and containing the outcome of a random experiment, families of which comprise a stochastic process.
Industry:Earth science
A GAIM project to compare the results of global 3-D ocean models being used to study the ocean’s carbon cycle.
Industry:Earth science
A gap in the topography between the Kerguelan Plateau and the Antarctic continent, with a sill depth of 3750 m. It provides a route for the exchange of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) between the Australian–Antarctic Basin and theWeddell–Enderby Basin.
Industry:Earth science
A gas emitted by phytoplankton in seawater where it escapes to the air and and reacts to form aerosols and presumably has a non-negligible climate effect. DMS often has a maximum at the surface or within the euphotic zone and decreases rapidly below this. It also has a strong seasonal cycle with a maximum in the summer and a minimum in the winter.
Industry:Earth science
A general class of phenomena where, after a storm surge, the water level falls, rises, falls again, rises again, and so on for many hours after the passage of a hurricane. This has been variously explained as being due to oscillating long waves, edge waves, Kelvin waves or some combination thereof.
Industry:Earth science
A general collective term for loose mineral and rock that is broken or worn off by mechanical means, as by disintegration or abrasion.
Industry:Earth science
A general term for numerical models designed to simulate the generation, propagation, shoaling, interaction, refraction, reflection, etc. of wind waves. These are used to predict wave fields for complicated wave fields and bathymetry. First generation wave models include:
SOWM
ODGP (Reece and Cardone (1982))
GSOWM Second generation models include:
SAIL (Greenwood et al. (1985))
NOW
WINCH
ODGP-2 Third generation models include:
CSOWM (Khandekar et al. (1994))
SWAN
WAVEWATCH
Industry:Earth science
A general term referring to lines drawn on a map or chart to display the distribution of any element, each line being drawn through places at which the element has the same value.
Industry:Earth science
A generalization of Stokes’ theorem that enables the calculation of the circulation on a rotating Earth.
Industry:Earth science
A generalization of the POP concept into the complex domain. Although this was introduced to extend the POP technique to the modeling of standing wave oscillations, it was also found the CPOPs evolve more regularly and with less noise than POPs. Also, prediction skills are significantly stronger than with the POP model.
Industry:Earth science
