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Founded in 1876, Texas A&M University is a U.S. public and comprehensive university offering a wide variety of academic programs far beyond its original label of agricultural and mechanical trainings. It is one of the few institutions holding triple federal designations as a land-, sea- and ...
A limestone structure found in relatively shallow water composed of corals, organisms that secrete limestone foundations to provide structural support and protection. There are three geomorphologically distinct types of coral reefs, fringing reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls, although there are gradations between these types. All these types have the same basic biological structure and result from the same processes of accretion.
Industry:Earth science
A long–term, 1000 km scale tomography experiment taking place from Dec. 1998 to Dec. 2000. The purpose is to measure the shallow overturning of a meridional circulation cell, i.e. a subtropical circulation cell (STC) that has been hypothesized as one mechanism by which El Nino/La Nina events in the tropics are connected to the subtropical ocean. CEPTE involved five JAMSTEC tomography moorings deployed in an array about 1000 km across just north of the equator at about 180°W.
Industry:Earth science
A major discontinuity in the warm water sphere in the eastern tropical Atlantic named as such by Zenk et al. (1991). It marks the boundary between the North and South Atlantic Central Waters (NACW, SACW) that form a strong thermohaline front north of the Cape Verde Islands.
Industry:Earth science
A map series established by Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1903. This is at present an activity of the IOC.
Industry:Earth science
A map showing the water levels throughout a bay or estuary at a particular point in time. Tide Charts normally show the water levels on an hourly basis after high tide. They are available for a relatively few locations around the U.S. Contrast with Tide Table.
Industry:Earth science
A mapping of discrete points onto a continuum (e.g. the ocean, the atmosphere, etc.) to comprise a grid-like structure. This is done to enable a numerical solution of the equations governing the specific continuum in cases where analytical solutions are impossible or infeasible due to irregular boundary conditions, nonlinearities in the governing equations, or some combination thereof. A discretized version of the equations is solved at each point in the grid, and the collection of these solutions is combined (usually graphically) to recover a continuum-like solution. It is hoped that this solution well approximates the hypothesized correct solution.
Industry:Earth science
A marginal sea in the southwest Pacific Ocean. This is a name sometimes given to the combined areas of the Java Sea and the shelf sector of the South China Sea.
Industry:Earth science
A marginal sea located in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is roughly defined as the waters lying to the west of Jan Mayen Ridge at about 7° W. It adjoins the waters of the Norwegian Sea to the east, the Greenland Sea to the north, the Denmark Strait to the west, and the North Atlantic Ocean to the south. The average depth of this region is about 1128 m. In the summer, the volume of the Iceland Sea is composed of about 60% Greenland Sea Deep Water (GSDW), 30% upper and lower Arctic Intermediate Water (AIW), with the remaining 10% distributed among the Polar Intermediate Water (PIW), surface water masses (i.e. Polar Water (PW), Atlantic Water (AW), and Arctic Surface Water (ASW)).
Industry:Earth science
A marginal sea located in the southwest Pacific centered at about 155° E and 14° S off of the northeast coast of Australia. It is also bordered by the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea to the north and west, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides Islands to the east, and abuts the Tasman Sea to the south. The bathymetry is essentially composed of the Solomon Basin to the northwest, the Coral Sea Basin in the center, and the New Hebrides basin to the east. It has a mean depth of about 2400 m with a maximum depth of 9140 m in the New Britain Trench. The shallowest parts are found on the continental shelf off of Queensland.
Industry:Earth science
A marginal sea located in the southwest Pacific centered at about 160° E and 37° S off the southwest coast of Australia. It is also surrounded by New Zealand to the east, Tasmania to the southwest, and the Coral Sea to the north. The maximum depth is 5943 m. The bathymetry is essentially composed of the east Australian Basin in the westerly part and the depression of New Caledonia to the east, with the two separated by the Lord Howe Sill.
Industry:Earth science
