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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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isobath
Earth science; Oceanography
A contour of equal depth in a body of water, represented on a bathymetric chart.
Rayleigh scattering
Earth science; Oceanography
1. Any scattering process produced by spherical particles whose radii are smaller than about one-tenth the wavelength of the scattered radiation. Compare Mie scattering. See ...
Oyashio current
Earth science; Oceanography
A cold ocean current flowing from the Bering Sea southwest along the coast of Kamchatka, past the Kuril Islands, continuing close to the northeast coast of Japan and reaching ...
Gaussian wave packet
Earth science; Oceanography
A collection of waves the amplitudes of which have a Gaussian dependence on wavenumber about some central wavenumber.
North Atlantic current
Earth science; Oceanography
A continuation of the Gulf Stream , originating at about 40 degrees latitude and 50 degrees longitude, comprising all the easterly and northerly currents of the North Atlantic ...
Davidson current
Earth science; Oceanography
A countercurrent of the Pacific Ocean running north along the west coast of the United States (from northern California to Washington to at least latitude 48 degrees) during the ...
Antarctic circumpolar current
Earth science; Oceanography
The ocean current with the largest volume transport (approximately 110 x 10(s) m(s)/sec), and the swiftest current; it flows from west to east through all the oceans around the ...
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