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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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Formation Experiment (FORMEX)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An Antarctic CRC project to define the mechanisms underlying the formation of sea ice and its role on the formation of Antarctic Surface Waters and air–sea interaction. Specific ...
Global Drifter Center (GDC)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An AOML data center located in Miami, Florida that manages the deployment of drifting buoys around the world. Global Lagrangian Drifters (GLD) are placed in areas of interest ...
International Arctic Polynya Program (IAPP)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An AOSB project to address the physical and biological role of polynyas in the Arctic.
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An archive based at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory which contains monthly and annual mean sea level information from over 1600 tide gauge stations from around the world.
Northeastern Atlantic Dynamics Study (NEADS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An array of instrumentation moorings anchored in the northeastern Atlantic basin in the early 1980s. This was a collaboration between West Germany, England and France and ...
Fjortoft’s theorem
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A theorem that is a consequence of both vorticity and enstrophy being conserved in the two-dimensional flow an inviscid homogeneous fluid. It states that the transfer of energy ...
cyclostrophic wind
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A theoretically hypothesized wind that would exist, when blowing around circular isobars, as a balance between the pressure gradient and the centrifugal force. The Coriolis force ...
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