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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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Kuroshio Extension Region Experiment (KERE)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A field investigation of the Kuroshio and the deep western boundary current east of Japan.
Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A field study designed to determine physical mechanisms and processes, and their critical spatial and temporal combinations, which can account for the wintertime phenomenon of ...
Challenger Report
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A fifty volume set of reports on the results of the Challenger Expedition. The six main sections of the report were narrative, physics and chemistry, deep–sea deposits, botany, ...
siliceous ooze
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A fine-grained sediment of pelagic origin found on the deep-ocean floor. It contains more than 30% siliceous material of organic origin and is usually found below the carbon ...
Profiling ALACE float (PALACE)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A float with all of the capabilities of an ALACE float as well as a longer lifetime and a CTD profiler to obtain vertical temperature and salinity profiles.
Newtonian fluid
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A fluid in which deformation is proportional to velocity gradients.
General Digital Environmental Model (GDEM)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A four-dimensional (latitude, longitude, depth, and time) digital model of temperature and salinity for the North and South Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean north of 40° S, ...
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