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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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Satellite Active Archive (SAA)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A digital library of real-time and historical satellite data from NOAA’s POES. SAA allows users to search inventories of satellite data, preview representative Earth images of ...
MEDI
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A directory of information about marine related datasets that consists of metadata, i.e. data about other datasets. The aims of MEDI are to catalog which data is available, when ...
Jule Charney
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A dominant figure (1917-1981) in atmospheric science and geophysical fluid dynamics in general in the three decades following WWII.
Guineau Dome
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A doming of the thermocline in the summer at approximately 10° N and 22° W off the coast off of Dakar in west Africa. This is due to a small cyclonic gyre driven by part of the ...
Doodson filter
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A Doodson X0 filter is a simple filter designed to damp out the main tidal frequencies. It takes 19 values on either side of a central value and calculates a weighted average. If ...
Multi–Scale Profiler (MSP)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A dropsonde that resolves horizontal velocity over scales ranging from the ocean depth to microscale by combining electromagnetic, acoustic and hydrodynamic lift data on small ...
Comprehensive Ocean Air Data Set (COADS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A CGCP program to update and enhance the most extensive and widely used set of surface marine data available for the global ocean over the past 150 years.
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