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Earth science
Any of several geological sciences that are concerned with the earth, its origins, and all of its various structures and physical forms and phenomena.
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Pe'cle't number
Earth science; Oceanography
Dimensionless number relating the ratio of inertial forces to thermal diffusion. Explicitly, the Pe'cle't number is Pe=UL/\kappa in which U and L are characteristic velocity ...
reynolds number
Earth science; Oceanography
Dimensionless number relating the ratio of inertial to viscous forces. Explicitly, the Reynolds number is Re=UL/\nu in which U and L are characteristic velocity and length ...
equatorial kelvin wave
Earth science; Oceanography
Eastward propagating wave centered about the equator with zonal but no meridional velocity. The zonal velocity has a Gaussian meridional structure centered about the equator with ...
Gulf Stream rings
Earth science; Oceanography
Eddies formed by pinching off of meanders in the Gulf Stream. Eddies forming to the north (coastward side) of the Gulf Stream are called warm core rings and those forming to the ...
tropics
Earth science; Oceanography
Either of two parallels of latitude 23°27' north and south of the equator, being the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; also the region bounded by these latitudes.
infrared radiation
Earth science; Oceanography
Electromagnetic radiation lying in the wavelength interval from 0. 7 µ to 1000 µ. Its lower limit is bounded by visible radiation, and its upper limit by microwave radiation. ...
heat energy
Earth science; Oceanography
Energy associated with the random motion of atoms and molecules in a substance; in general, this energy can be measured by temperature. Heat energy exists as either sensible heat ...
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