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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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Mediterreanean Eddy Resolving Modeling and Interdisciplinary Studies (MERMAIDS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A study whose main goal is to assess the internal variability of the Mediterranean thermohaline circulation as induced by deep and intermediate water formation processes and the ...
Eddy Damped Quasi-Normal Markovian (EDQNM)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A subfilter closure model applied in spectral wavenumber space rather than physical space which considers interactions between resolved and subfilter wavenumbers by considering ...
Intergovernmental WOCE Panel (IWP)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A subsidiary body of the IOC and the WMO established to meet the scientific, managerial, implementation, and resource needs of WOCE. See the IWP Web site81.
RAFOS
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A subsurface float introduced by Thomas Rossby in 1985 that listens to acoustic signals instead of transmitting (like the earlier SOFAR float). At the end of its mission it ...
geopotential surface
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A surface to which the force of gravity is everywhere perpendicular and equal. No work is necessary for the displacement of mass along a potential surface as long as no other ...
Otto Pettersson
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A Swedish chemist and physical oceanographer who organized many of the earliest cooperative cruises in Scandanavian waters and promoted the idea of what would become the ICES.
Buys Ballot’s law
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A synoptic meteorology rule stating that if, in the northern hemisphere, an observer stands with his back to the wind, pressure is lower on his left hand than on his right, while ...
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