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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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Hough functions
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The eigenfunctions of a linearized form of the governing equations of motion on a sphere, i.e. Laplace’s tidal equations, as first discovered by Hough (1898). Each Hough mode is a ...
turbulence kinetic energy (TKE)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The energy contained within the turbulent portion of a flow.
eddy conductivity
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The exchange coefficient for the transfer of heat by eddies in turbulent flow, i.e. eddy heat flux. This is also called the eddy conduction coefficient. eddy diffusivity
latent heat flux
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The exchange of heat between a moisture-containing surface and atmosphere resulting mainly from the evaporation at the surface and the later condensation within the atmosphere. ...
meteorological tsunami
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The excitation of short period (on the order of minutes) sea level oscillations near a coast by the passage of atmospheric pressure gravity waves.
GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The first large scale international field experiment of GARP. It was conducted in 1974 and aimed at the study of energetics and dynamics of cloud clusters that drift from the ...
tidal friction
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The first quantitative theory of the tidal evolution of the Earth-Moon system was presented in a series of papers by George Darwin (Darwin (1879), Darwin (1880b), and Darwin ...
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