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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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Sverdrup transport
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The net meridional flow of mass in the interior of the ocean gyres away from the lateral boundaries.
Gulf of Bothnia
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The northern section of the Baltic Sea. It is further divided into the northern Bay of Bothnia and the southern Bothnian Sea, the latter of which adjoins the Aland Sea to the ...
North Atlantic Drift
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The northward limb of the anticyclonic subtropical gyre in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is a northerly extension of the Gulf Stream but, due to a different dynamical regime, is a ...
Findlater jet
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The atmospheric equivalent of an oceanic western boundary current. An example originates with the southwest monsoon that, fed partly from a northward extension of the easterly ...
time step
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The basic unit of temporal resolution in a numerical model created by discretizing a continuum differential equation to create an analogous discrete algebraic equation. The model ...
horse latitudes
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The belts of variable, light winds and fine weather associated with the subtropical anticyclones The name originated with the historical sailing practice of throwing the horses ...
paleolimnology
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The branch of limnology that studies of past fresh water, saline and brackish environments. This is done in large part by taking cores from a limnological sediment system and ...
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