Home > Industry/Domain > Earth science
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.
7Categories 223518Terms
Add a new termContributors in Earth science
Earth science > Physical oceanography 
ocean troposphere
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The upper layer of the ocean as defined by Defant in 1928. The troposphere is a region of relatively high temperature where there are strong vertical and horizontal variations of ...
regenerated production
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The uptake of ammonium by phytoplankton in the euphotic zone. It is so-called because ammonium is a product of internal processes within the euphotic zone and it is therefore ...
radiometry
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The use of a radiometer to quantitatively describe the power from a specific light field. The description can be made in terms of several properties including magnitude, ...
geostrophic approximation
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The use of the geostrophic wind as an approximation to the actual wind in the equations of motion.
paleothermometry
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The use of various paleoclimate proxy data to attempt to gauge paleotemperatures.
spiciness
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The variability of temperature and salinity along a surface of constant density due to air–sea fluxes, turbulent mixing and advection.
relative vorticity
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The vorticity imparted to a parcel or column of fluid by fluid motion. It is a characteristic of the kinematics of the fluid flow which expresses the tendency for portions of the ...
Sub-categories
- Geology (10953)
- Mapping science (105290)
- Oceanography (12332)
- Physical oceanography (42660)
- Remote sensing (8661)
- Seismology (14406)
- Soil science (29216)