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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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principal interaction patterns (PIP)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A method of reducing the complexity of a full covariance matrix by combining an EOF-type pattern expansion in the spatial domain with an ARMA-type dynamical modeling approach in ...
Singular Spectrum Analysis
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A method of time series analysis, sometimes abbreviated as SSA, designed to extract as much information as possible from short, noisy time series without prior knowledge of the ...
wave spectrum method
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A method of wave forecasting that describes the waves generated by storms in terms of a complete spectrum of periods and energies rather than in terms of a single significant wave ...
Jacobsen’s method
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A method suggested by Jacobsen in 1927 to compute eddy coefficients using T-S diagrams.
sea surface film
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A microlayer hundreds of microns thick located at the sea–air interface. These are the site of intense accumulation of organic matter from underlying waters or atmospheric ...
Ferrel cell
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A mid-latitude mean atmospheric circulation cell for weather proposed by Ferrel in the 19th century. In this cell the air flows poleward and eastward near the surface and ...
Stommel-Arons thermohaline circulation
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A model of global thermohaline circulation developed by Henry Stommel and Arnold Arons in a series of papers starting in 1961. This model combines sources of abyssal water at ...
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