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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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radiometer
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A device that uses a photocell to measure the power of a specific light field.
continuous plankton meter
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A device used by biological oceanographers to provide continuous qualitative and quantitative records of plankton distribution and patchiness when studying swarms over large ...
otter trawl
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A device used in biological oceanography to trawl for pelagic organisms. As opposed to the beam trawl, the opening to this is kept open not by a rigid rectangular frame but rather ...
transfer function
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A device used in paleoclimate data analysis to obtain proxy data. An equation, or transfer function, is developed using mathematical techniques of regression that relates the ...
fluorometer
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A device used to measure the concentration of chlorophyll in sea water. It does this by mimicking the sun and emitting a flash of light at a specific wavelength and causing the ...
Oceanographic Remotely Controlled Automaton (ORCA)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A diesel powered semi–submersible designed to survey water depths from 10 to 300 meters. This instrument was designed for the cost effective collection of hydrographic and ...
ETOPO5
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A digital database of land and sea floor elevations on a 5 minute lat/lon grid. The resolution of the gridded data varies from true 5-minute for the ocean floors, the USA., ...
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