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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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South Pacific Equatorial Water (SPEW)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, a water mass partly formed by convective sinking of surface water at SSTs of 26° C and above in the tropics in the area of Polynesia. It is identified at ...
Eurafrican Mediterranean Water (EMW)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, a water mass that leaves the Strait of Gibraltar with a temperature of about 13.5° C and a salinity of 37.8 but is transformed by mixing to a temperature ...
Weddell Deep Water (WDW)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, a water mass type formed in the Weddell Sea by surface cooling and subsequent convection in the polyna. This water has stable properties with a potential ...
Western South Pacific Central Water (WSPCW)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, a water mass which is one of six distinguishable Central Water masses in the Pacific Ocean. Its T-S properties are almost indistinguishable from those of ...
Western North Pacific Central Water (WNPCW)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, the dominant water mass in the northern subtropical gyre, formed and subducted in the northern STC. This is fresher than NPEW at all temperatures and ...
Polar Frontal Zone
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, the name given to a transition region in the Southern Ocean (SO) or Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) between the Subantarctic Front (SAF) to the north ...
Pacific Equatorial Water
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, the water mass that occupies the largest volume of the Pacific thermocline waters. The NPEW and the SPEW are two varieties of this separated, as one ...
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