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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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Baltic Sea Experiment (BALTEX)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A GEWEX project to study coupled hydrological processes between complicated terrain, sea and ice and the atmospheric circulation to determine the energy and water budgets of the ...
Baffin Bay
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A large sea located between the Canadian Archipelago and the Labrador Sea. It is about 1000 km and 400 km. Most of Baffin Bay is deeper than 1500 m, but deep water exchange with ...
ice shelf
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An ice sheet that extends over the sea and floats on the water. These range in thickness from a few hundred to over 1000 meters and are connected to land at coastal grounding ...
inertial wave
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A limiting form of a long Poincare wave that oscillations at the inertial frequency. In this limit the effects of gravity are negligible and the fluid particles are moving under ...
infralittoral zone
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The third (from the top) of seven zones into which the benthos has been divided. This has also been called the inner sublittoral zone.
in situ data
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Data associated with reference to measurements made at the actual location of the object or material measured, by contrast with remote sensing (i.e., from space).
interbasin exchange
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, the active exchange of waters and/or water mass properties between basins. Evidence for this process is provided by the similarities in water masses in ...
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