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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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overturning potential energy
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In a stratified ocean, the locally averaged change in potential energy produced by vertically rearranging the water column to achieve static stability.
roughness height
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In atmospheric boundary layer dynamics, the height above a surface where the wind speed reaches zero. This is used when surface irregularities are larger than the 1 mm depth of ...
export production
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In biological oceanography, the loss rate of organic carbon (and nitrogen) from the surface ocean layer to the ocean interior.
coupled model
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In climate modeling this refers to the combination of an atmospheric GCM with some sort of ocean model rather than the simple specification of SSTs as a lower boundary condition. ...
cold start problem
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In climate modeling, this is a problem that results from beginning a model simulation at a point in time when the climate response to natural and anthropogenic forcing that ...
low pass filter
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In data or signal analysis, a filter that passes frequencies below some cutoff frequency while attenuating higher frequencies.
filter
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In data or signal analysis, a function that selectively discriminates against some of the information passing through it. The discrimination is usually performed on the basis of ...
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