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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spectral element method

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A method for approximating solutions to the governing equations of fluid motion in the ocean. It was developed to combine the geometrical flexibility of the traditional loworder ...

paleocalibration method

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A method for calculating the relationship between paleoclimates and the future climate. For a given time interval, one obtains both the difference from present-day globally ...

separation formula

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A method for computing the adiabatic inter–hemispheric meridional transport.

prewhitening

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A method for dealing with nonstationarity in time series analysis where a new series is creating by forming the differential of the original series. In practice this is done by ...

wave spectrum

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A method for describing the characteristics of irregular waves in which parameterized formulae are developed by spectral analysis of measured wave data. Several wave spectra have ...

geostrophic method

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A method for determining the relative geostrophic flow field in the ocean from the distribution of density in the ocean. An absolute geostrophic flow field can additionally be ...