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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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Autosub
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), i.e. a robotic vehicle designed to carry a varying scientific payload which is changed to suit each mission.
Atlantic Trade Winds Experiment (ATEX)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An experiment designed to study the development of the boundary layer in the trade winds near the ITCZ. It was conducted in 1969 and based on a triangle of ships drifting with ...
Allyn Vine (ALVIN) submersible
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A deep submersible named after Allyn Vine commissioned on June 5, 1964 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. It has been used for over a thousand research and rescue ...
Arctic Sea Ice Program (ASIP)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A component of ACSYS whose objectives are: * to assemble a climatological archive which documents the state of pack ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic seas; and * to study the ...
Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An ongoing research program that exploits the twice-annual passage of the RRS James Clark Ross between the U. K. and the Falkland Islands - before and after its use in the ...
Australasian Mediterranean Sea
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The region on either side of the equator between the islands of the Indonesian archipelago. This has the most complicated topography of any of the regional seas of the world, ...
Anadyr Current
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A surface current that flows along the northwestern side of the Bering Sea and on through the Bering Strait. It is mostly seasonally invariant with a velocity of about 0. 3 m/s.
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