- Industry: Education
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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 ...
An airborne remote sensor used to support the development and refinement of satellite radars that measure the ocean surface. It is an instrument which uses the specular backscatter from a rotating near–nadir radar to estimate the two-dimensional ocean surface wave spectrum. ROWS is implemented from aircraft flying 5–10 km above the ocean.
Industry:Earth science
An algorithm for imposing additional conditions on the solution of a boundary value elliptic problem at specified grid points in the interior of the computational domain. It effectively determines a modification to the right-hand side of the governing elliptic equation which will precisely satisfy the additional interior boundary conditions. Pragmatically it allows the inclusion of island and irregular coastal boundaries while retaining the use of fast and accurate elliptic solving routines at a modest additional computational expense.
Industry:Earth science
An all–refractive spectral radiometer with six spectral bands spanning from visible to near infrared.
Industry:Earth science
An amphidromic point whose center or nodal point appears to be located over land rather than water.
Industry:Earth science
An analog of AMIP for global coupled ocean–atmosphere general circulation models. It began in 1995 under the auspices of CLIVAR and is supported (as is AMIP) by PCMDI. The purpose of CMIP is to examine climate variability and predictability as simulated by the models, and to compare the model output with observations where available.
Industry:Earth science
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 goals including obtaining:
quantitative estimates of the rate of formation of Antarctic surface waters in the ice pack during winter,
quantitative estimates of the transfer of heat between ocean and atmosphere and the role of advection of surface and circumpolar deep water on these transfers, and;
a better understanding of the processes and mechanisms involving in the mixing of Polar Zone waters with complex zone waters near the Antarctic Shelf.
Industry:Earth science
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 using research ships, VOS, and U.S. Navy aircraft. Once they are operationally verified, the data is telemetered to the GDS and disseminated to interested parties everywhere.
Industry:Earth science
An AOSB project to address the physical and biological role of polynyas in the Arctic.
Industry:Earth science
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.
Industry:Earth science
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 complementary to the contemporanous MODE program.
Industry:Earth science
