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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 ...
The Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project (COHMAP) was an initiative to assemble a global array of well-dated paleoclimate data and use a GCM to identify and evaluate causes and mechanisms of climate change over the last 18,000 years.
Industry:Earth science
The denotes the effect of the Coriolis force to deviate a moving body perpendicular to its velocity.
Industry:Earth science
The dependence of wave velocity on the frequency of wave motion. The name comes from the fact that waves starting at the same place will, if they have different frequencies, move away at different speeds and thus disperse or spread out.
Industry:Earth science
The depth at which the wind-induced current direction is 180 degrees from that of the wind in an Ekman spiral.
Industry:Earth science
The determination of the harmonic components of a complex waveform, i.e. the terms of a Fourier series that represents the waveform.
Industry:Earth science
The difference in how land and water surfaces absorb heat, with water having a higher heat capacity than land. The same amount of solar radiation will heat the same area of ground more than it will the ocean. The heat absorbed by the ocean will be distributed over a greater vertical extent than on land due to mixing in the water column. These factors lead to the difference between land and ocean temperatures being greatest in the summer when the amount of solar radiation is the highest, with the land being warmer than the ocean. In the winter the ocean surface is warmer than the land, although the differential isn’t as great as in winter. Diurnal variations in differential heating lead to the phenomenon known as a sea breeze, while long term (i.e. over weeks to months) variations lead to prevailing winds often called monsoons.
Industry:Earth science
The direction of rotation around a center of low pressure. This is counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. The term originates from the circulation observed around tropical cyclones.
Industry:Earth science
The discoverers of a time step limitation for numerical simulations of partial differential equations.
Industry:Earth science
The divergence of a coupled atmosphere-ocean numerical model simulation from an initial or observed state due to imbalances between the components.
Industry:Earth science
The Early Mesozoic world ocean. It was a single ocean reaching from pole to pole, probably consisting of single southern and northern gyres, deep water formation at both poles, and slothlike deep-water circulation.
Industry:Earth science
