- 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 instrumented and unmanned mooring designed to acoustically measure the size and abundance of marine life populations, collect the supporting data that characterizes the marine environment, and automatically transmit the data to shore stations for analysis. The BITS system was developed by Tracor and the University of Southern California. It employs a bi–frequency acoustic projector which operates at 165 kHz and 1.1 MHz, with backscattered acoustic signals received by the sensors transmitted via VHF packet telemetry to shore stations.
Industry:Earth science
An intense offshore jet that forms at the easternmost tip of Oman as the East Arabian Current (EAC) separates from the coast at the eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. The RAH Jet is found at the northern edge of EAC during the southwest monsoon, and may be considered as its offshore extension. As the wind regime reverses and the EAC weakens, the RAH Jet becomes the southern edge of the warm circulation in the Gulf of Oman.
Industry:Earth science
An interdisciplinary field of study for understanding fluid flows which occur naturally, e.g. the general circulation of the atmosphere, oceanic circulations, mantle convection, and the motions which drive the geodynamo. This is accomplished through mathematical, numerical and experimental modeling.
Industry:Earth science
An international collaborative air-sea interaction experiment in which a specially instrumented meteorological research aircraft simultaneously gathered atmospheric turbulence data in the marine boundary layer and sea surface topography data over the Southern Ocean for a wide range of wind speeds. The aim was to increase present knowledge of severe sea state air-sea interaction. SOWEX was carried out from June 10–16, 1992 over the Southern Ocean off the southwest coast of Tasmania, Australia at 42–45°S, 143–147°E.
Industry:Earth science
An international field program conducted during 1989–1991 in the western boundary region of the tropical Atlantic between 0° and 10° N. Moored current meter observations were collected in the North Brazil Current (NBC) near the equator, near 4° N, and near 6° N to investigate the structure and variability of the NBC.
Industry:Earth science
An international field program designed to investigate the transport of fresh water and suspended sediment from the Amazon River into the Atlantic.
Industry:Earth science
An international network of major oceanographic institutions established to promote the integration and implementation of global oceanographic activities.
Industry:Earth science
An investigation in the North Atlantic that took place during IGY under the auspices of ICES.
Industry:Earth science
An investigation of the physical and biological conditions of the Atlantic and Indian oceans during 1898 and 1899 by a research team aboard the “Valdivia.” This expedition penetrated into the Antarctic as far as the ice would permit. The results were issued as a series of memoirs under the editorship of Chun, the leader of the expedition.
Industry:Earth science
An investigation whose aim is to study and characterize bio–physical interactions and variability in the atmosphere–ocean–biology system.
Industry:Earth science
