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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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Barents Sea

Earth science; Physical oceanography

One of the seas found on the Siberian shelf in the Arctic Mediterranean Sea. It is located between the White Sea to the west and the Kara Sea to the east and adjoins the Arctic ...

Balearic Sea

Earth science; Physical oceanography

One of the seas that comprise the western basin of the Mediterranean Sea which is sometimes called the Catalan Sea. It lies between the Iberian coast and the Balearic Islands ...

Bering Sea Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (BSFOCI)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A NOAA COP program whose overall goal is to reduce uncertainty in resource management decisions through ecological research on recruitment and stock structure of walleye pollock, ...

biological pump

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The transformation, via photosynthesis in the ocean surface layer by plant cells (primarily phytoplankton), of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) into biogenic carbon, including, ...

Bayesian signal analysis (BSA)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A method designed to be optimal for analyzing short time series which can work with an SNR as low as 0. 6. No hypotheses are made about the actual series belonging to any ...

bioacoustical oceanography

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The application of underwater acoustics to investigations of biological patterns and processes in the sea. This has been traditionally divided into two distinct groups of ...

Biodiversity and Fluxes in Glacial Arctic Fjords (BIODAFF)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A project to study the effects of seasonal fluctuations in salinity, turbidity and sedimentation rates in the glacial fjords on Svalvard on how the diversity of ice flora and ...