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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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anticyclonic
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The direction of rotation around a center of high pressure. This is clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern.
Atlantic domain
Earth science; Physical oceanography
One of three regions into which the North Atlantic Ocean is sometimes divided for the purposes of describing water mass formation processes in the region, with the other two being ...
acoustical oceanography
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The study of sound propagation in the ocean and its underlying sediments. This ranges from the earliest use of depth soundings to chart the ocean floor to the use of SONAR to ...
anisotropic
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Descriptor for a physical property (e.g. density, etc. ) that varies depending on the direction in which it is measured.
Arctic Ocean Circulation Program (AOCP)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A component of ACSYS designed to investigate the feedback between changes in the upper Arctic Ocean and its ice cover and changes in the global heat balance. The AOCP consists of ...
Azores Countercurrent (AzCC)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A band of westward transport all across the North Atlantic at about the latitude of the Azores. The driving mechanism is an anomaly in the meridional change of the wind stress ...
aliasing
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A phenomenon encountered when sampling a continuous function to produce values at discrete points. If the sampling frequency isn't high enough to resolve the highest frequency ...
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