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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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Icelandic low
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A center of action between Greenland and Iceland and extending to the Canadian Arctic over Baffin Island. It persists year round with some variation in intensity, extent, and ...
Pacific High
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A center of action centered off the coast of Baja, California at about 30° N and 140° W in winter. It moves northwestward to about 40° N and 150° W and intensifies in the summer ...
South African Data Centre for Oceanography (SADCO)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A center that stores, retrieves and manipulates multi-disciplinary marine information from the areas around Southern Africa.
Parallel Community Climate Model (PCCM)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A parallel version of the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM2) implemented for MIMD massively parallel computers using the message passing programming paradigm. It can be ...
Paleoenvironmental ARCtic Science (PARCS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A part of ARCSS program. The theme is to explore the importance of land–ocean interactions and the variation in freshwater and chemical fluxes within the total arctic system.
Lincoln Sea
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A part of the Arctic Mediterranean Sea located on the Greenland-Canadian-Alaskan shelf. It is situated northeastward of Ellesmere Island and northwest of northern Greenland.
Hadley Cell
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A part of the atmospheric circulation system extending from the Equator to 30° latitude on both sides of the Equator. It is a thermally-driven system in which heated air rises at ...
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