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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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hydrosphere
Earth science; Physical oceanography
This consists of all water in the liquid phase distributed on the Earth, including the oceans, interior seas, lakes, rivers, and subterranean waters.
UWM/COADS
Earth science; Physical oceanography
This is a data set that contains raw and objectively analyzed fields of surface marine anomalies of fluxes of heat, momentum and fresh water along with several other parameters. ...
benthic biology and geochemistry of a north-eastern Atlantic abyssal locality (BENGAL)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
This is a high resolution temporal and spatial study whose objective is to understand how the properties of the abyssal boundary layer respond to and modify the incoming chemical ...
night-time marine air temperature (NMAT)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
This is a temperature defined and measured so as to avoid the effects of the daytime heating of the decks of ships, the platforms on which such things are usually measured.
Comprehensive Ocean Air Data Set
Earth science; Physical oceanography
This is an extensive data set that was created by combining, editing and summarizing global in situ marine data from many sources. It covers the period 1854-1992. It is a ...
undersea feature
Earth science; Physical oceanography
This is defined in the IHO’s ”Standardization of Undersea Feature Names” (3rd Ed., April 2001) as “part of the ocean floor or seabed that has measurable relief or is delimited by ...
carbon dioxide
Earth science; Physical oceanography
This is the most important of the greenhouse gases with an atmospheric concentration of 353 ppm (in 1990), up from an estimated 260-290 in pre-industrial times (pre-1880). This ...
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