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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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Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
Earth science; Physical oceanography
GEWEX was initiated in 1988 by the WCRP as a program designed to observe and model the hydrologic cycle and energy fluxes in the atmosphere, at the land surface, and in the upper ...
North East Atlantic (NEAT GIN)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Greenland–Iceland–Norwegian Sea Experiment, an experiment which took place during Sept.–Oct. 1989 at the Norwegian shelf edge near 68° N and comprised seven moorings, five in a ...
Harmonious Ice and Hydrographic Observations – Heat In (HiHo HiHo Experiment)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Halide Out Experiment, a Antarctic CRC experiment to study the Antarctic pack ice during winter. The project aims include: (1) providing a quantitative assessment of the mass ...
Hans Pettersson
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Head of the Swedish Deep Sea Expedition and son of Otto Pettersson.
Shuttle Imaging Radar-C used for geologic (SIR-C)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Hydrologic, and oceanographic studies. It can image the Earth through cloud cover and its sensitivity to surface roughness, soil moisture, and sea-ice-water contrast makes it ...
Taylor column
Earth science; Physical oceanography
If relative motion is created in a rotating container by heating or by stirring and if an obstacle is placed on the bottom of the tank so that the moving fluid must flow around ...
Thorpe scale
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In a stratified ocean, a vertical profile may contain regions of static instability. Vertical displacements can be created by reordering the profile to achieve static stability. ...
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