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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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meteoric water line
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An equation expressing a correlation between deuterium and oxygen-18 in meteoric waters. The equation is expressed as del D = 8 * del oxygen-18 + 10.
dispersion relation
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An equation with which one can determine the frequency (and thus phase speed) of waves of a given wavenumber, or occasionally vice versa.
Yanai wave
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An equatorially trapped wave that behaves like a mixture of gravity and Rossby waves. Yanai waves exhibit an eastward group velocity at all wave numbers k, although for large ...
instrument error
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An error that is a function of the instrument design and the ambient conditions under which it must operate. For example, the mercury barometer for surface (not mean sea level) ...
Trans-Atlantic Study of Calanas finmarchicus (TASC)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An EU-funded program to understand the physical and biological processes which control the population dynamics of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus, a key zooplankton species in ...
SYMPLEX
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An experiment (also called ERS–SYMPLEX) carried out in the Sicily Channel during April– May 1996 to compare sea level anomalies obtained from ERS–1/2 and TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeters ...
Tower Ocean Wave and Radar Dependence Experiment (TOWARD)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An experiment conceived to provide a data base to resolve the disparity among different Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ocean surface imaging theories. The specific objectives were ...
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