Earth science

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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Brazil Current

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A western boundary current that forms the western limb of the subtropical gyre in the South Atlantic Ocean. This current is conspicuously weak as compared with other western ...

Bottom Mixed Layer (BML)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The middle of three layers into which the bottom 1000 m of the ocean are sometimes divided, with the other two being the BNL and the BEL. The thickness of the BML typically ...

Baltic Sea Fluorescence Experiment (BASFE)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

An experiment conducted between March 1 and 10, 1994 aboard the RV A. V. Humboldt as a collaborative project between the IRSA in Italy and the Institute for Baltic Sea ...

Boussinesq approximation

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A set of filtering approximations originally developed by Boussinesq. In his attempts to explain the motion of the light in the aether Boussinesq (in 1903) opened a wide ...

Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A U. K. contribution to JGOFS funded by the NERC. The goal of GOFS was to study differences in glacial-interglacial paleoenvironments of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, especially ...

Baltic Operational Oceanographic System (BOOS)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A cooperative endeavor among national government agencies in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea responsible for the collection of observations, model operations and ...