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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skin effect

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A temperature inversion in a thin near-surface ocean layer with a thickness of several millimeters. This is a source of uncertainty in radiometric measurements. The inversion ...

practical temperature scale

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A temperature scale created to provide an operational method for measuring temperatures that is precise and reproducible.

contra solem

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A term introduced by V. W. Ekman in 1923 to describe motion turning to the left (right) in the northern (southern) hemisphere, i.e. cyclonic motion. This is the reverse of cum ...

Celtic Seas

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A term used for the European shelf seas to the west and south of the British Isles. These include the Hebrides and Malin shelves west of Scotland, the Irish Shelf, the English ...

Seven Seas

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A term used long ago to collectively refer to the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Adriatic Sea and the Caspian Sea. The term is no ...

Nordic Seas

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A term used to collectively refer to the fairly shallow Barents Sea and three deep ocean regions: the Norwegian Sea, the Greenland Sea and the Iceland Sea. The deep parts of the ...