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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transitive

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In dynamical systems theory, a system is said to be transitive if different sets of initial conditions all evolve to a single resultant state. Compare to intransitive and almost ...

Soret effect

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In fluid mechanics, mass diffusion caused by a temperature gradient.

noise

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In geophysical data processing this is most simply defined as any unwanted signal, and given that one person’s signal can be another person’s noise, this is ultimately a relative ...

principal oscillation patterns (POP)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In linear cases, PIPs reduce to damped normal modes or POPs, that represent the eigenoscillations of the reduced linear dynamical system.

transfer efficiency

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In marine ecology, the ratio of the production of one trophic level to that of the next. This is a reasonable estimate of the ecological efficiency if it is assumed that the ...