- 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 organization formed in 1863 to provide independent, objective scientific advice to the nation. The Environment and Earth Sciences Program Unit provides funding for oceanographic research.
Industry:Earth science
An organization of 57 academic institutions and national laboratories involved in oceanographic research and joined for the purpose of coordinating ship schedules and research facilities. The original UNOLS charter was written in 1972.
Industry:Earth science
An organization of technical support personnel associated with the university oceanographic Research Vessel fleet of the U.S. RVTEC is charted by UNOLS and publishes a newsletter called “INTERFACE.”
Industry:Earth science
An organization within IGBP–PAGES to provide the vehicle through which international and national Arctic paleo–programs can be linked. The primary emphasis of CAPE is to facilitate the scientific integration of paleoenvironmental research on terrestrial environments and adjacent margins covering the last 250,000 years of Earth history, particularly those tasks that cannot easily be achieved by individual investigators or even regionally focused research teams.
Industry:Earth science
An SERDP program for monitoring and predicting ocean processes at a resolution sufficient to depict features such as fronts and eddies. It covers both deep and shallow water and uses a combination of numerical ocean models, remotely sensed data, and in situ data to develop ocean and ocean/atmosphere interface models aimed at predicting the natural variability of the global ocean system and its effect on short and long term climate variability. A major aspect of this research is to determine the origin of observed ocean anomalies and understand their dynamics using a combination of satellite data, an eddy–resolving global ocean model, and a comprehensive coastal model. This is an NRL program whose principal investigators are Harley Hurlburt and Ken Ferer.
Industry:Earth science
An underwater acoustics experiment performed jointly by the APL at the University of Washington School of Oceanography and the Acoustical Oceanography Research Group at the IOS. In this experiment acoustic arrays are designed to record images of sea surface zone backscattering in order to distinguish between rough surface scattering and scattering from bubble distributions near and beneath the surface. The hypothesis being tested is whether the small void fraction bubble clouds are responsible for the observed increase over simple rough surface backscattering predictions at moderate to high wind speeds.
Industry:Earth science
Another name for the Tsuchiya jets found in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
Industry:Earth science
Any condensed water particle in the atmosphere of size much larger than individual water molecules, e.g. fog, cloud, some hazes, rain and snow.
Industry:Earth science
Any of a group of exceptionally stable compounds containing carbon, fluorine, and chlorine, which have been used especially as refrigerants and aerosol propellants. CFCs are climatically significant for their ability to break down ozone molecules in the atmosphere. There are several kinds of CFCs, the most common being CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113, CFC-114 and CFC-115, having ODPs of, respectively, 1, 1, 0.8, 1 and 0.6. They are also significant as a greenhouse gas since, molecule for molecule, they are 10,000 times more efficient in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The GWPs of CFC-11 and CFC-12 are, respectively, 5000 and 8500.
Industry:Earth science
Any of an extremely large number of methods for mapping, or projecting, the spherical (well, almost) Earth onto a two-dimensional surface. An overview of map projections88 is available on the Web.
Industry:Earth science
