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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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RADARSAT Geophysical Processor System (RGPS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A computer system that takes RADARSAT SAR images of Arctic sea ice for input and creates geophysical data products for output. These include sea ice motion, the thickness ...
mean sea level (MSL)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A concept defined differently in the fields of tidal analysis and geodesy. In tidal analysis, MSL means the still water level averaged over a period of time such as a month or ...
Eliassen–Palm flux
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A concept originally developed as a diagnostic tool for studying the interaction between eddies and the zonal–mean flow in the atmosphere. The Eliassen–Palm flux vector is used to ...
mixing length
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A concept used in the parameterization of turbulent transport processes. According the this model, fluid masses called eddies, distinguishable from the ambient fluid, spring into ...
overmixing
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A condition that can exist in strongly stratified estuaries with net circulation out in the upper layer and net circulation in in the lower layer. This limits the amount of salt ...
Schlutsky-Yule effect
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A consequence of smoothing a time series with a low-pass filter. In a relatively short time series, even purely random fluctuations can give the impression of there being ...
Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A consortium consisting of MIT, JPL and SIO formed under the NOPP and funded by NSF, NASA and ONR. The consortium intends to bring ocean state estimation from its current ...
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