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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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SEASAT-A Scatterometer System (SASS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An active backscatter scatterometer operating at a frequency of 13.0 GHz which produced earth locatino and time tagged backscatter coefficients, surface wind stress, and surface ...
eddy-induced transport velocity
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An additional velocity which must be added to the large-scale velocity to properly advect large-scale tracers in numerical circulation models. This is due to the effective ...
Remote Ocean Wave Spectrometer (ROWS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An airborne remote sensor used to support the development and refinement of satellite radars that measure the ocean surface. It is an instrument which uses the specular ...
capacitance matrix method
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An algorithm for imposing additional conditions on the solution of a boundary value elliptic problem at specified grid points in the interior of the computational domain. It ...
ocean color imager (OCI)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An all–refractive spectral radiometer with six spectral bands spanning from visible to near infrared.
degenerate amphidromic point
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An amphidromic point whose center or nodal point appears to be located over land rather than water.
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An analog of AMIP for global coupled ocean–atmosphere general circulation models. It began in 1995 under the auspices of CLIVAR and is supported (as is AMIP) by PCMDI. The purpose ...
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