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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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Fourier analysis
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The determination of the harmonic components of a complex waveform, i.e. the terms of a Fourier series that represents the waveform.
differential heating
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The difference in how land and water surfaces absorb heat, with water having a higher heat capacity than land. The same amount of solar radiation will heat the same area of ground ...
cyclonic
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The direction of rotation around a center of low pressure. This is counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. The term originates from the ...
courant, friedrichs, and levy (CFL)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The discoverers of a time step limitation for numerical simulations of partial differential equations.
climate drift
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The divergence of a coupled atmosphere-ocean numerical model simulation from an initial or observed state due to imbalances between the components.
Panthalassa
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The Early Mesozoic world ocean. It was a single ocean reaching from pole to pole, probably consisting of single southern and northern gyres, deep water formation at both poles, ...
North Pacific Current
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The eastward continuation of the Kuroshio and Oyashio Extensions, with which it forms the southern limb of the North Pacific subpolar gyre. This is a broad band of eastward flow ...
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