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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 ...
One of four principal types of estuaries as distinguished by prevailing flow conditions. This type is stratified with a halocline between the upper and lower portions of the water column of nearly constant salinity. The James and Mersey estuaries are examples of this type.
Industry:Earth science
One of four scientific research divisions within NOAA’s AOML. Its work includes projects important in assessing the current and future affects of human activities on the coastal, deep ocean and atmospheric environment.
Industry:Earth science
One of the centers of action that tend to control large scale weather patterns around the globe. This center forms over Siberia during the winter and is centered around Lake Baikal. The sea level pressure exceeds 1030 millibars from late November to early March. The resulting anticyclonic circulation pattern is enhanced by the tendency of the surrounding mountains to prevent the cold air from easily flowing away. This pattern is replaced by a low pressure pattern in the summer related to the monsoon circulation.
Industry:Earth science
One of the founders of modern meteorology, Bjerknes entered and revolutionized the field at the age of 20 with his discovery of the structure of extratropical cyclones. His father was the physicist and geophysicist Vilhelm Bjerknes.
Industry:Earth science
One of the largest continental shelves in the world. It covers around 1,800,000 km2, is centered around 108° E and 2° N, and occupies the regions of the Java Sea, the southern parts of the South China Sea, and the Gulf of Thailand.
Industry:Earth science
One of the pathways (along with the Romanche Fracture Zone) for AABW and lower NADW from the western to the eastern trough of the equatorial Atlantic Ocean across the Mid– Atlantic Ridge. To the west of the CFZ sill, the AABW and NADW cores are separated by a deep thermocline marking the vertical transition between them. This thermocline erodes eastward and vanishes in the eastern basin.
Industry:Earth science
One of the seas found on the Siberian shelf in the Arctic Mediterranean Sea. It is located to the east of the East Siberian Sea, to the north of the Bering Strait, and adjoins the Arctic Ocean proper to the north. This has also been called the Chukotsk Sea.
Industry:Earth science
One of the seas found on the Siberian shelf in the Arctic Mediterranean Sea. It is located to the west of the Barents Sea and is otherwise landlocked.
Industry:Earth science
One of the seas that comprise the Australasian Mediterranean Sea. This is centered at about 130° E and 2–3° S and surrounded by Buru and Seram to the south and by Halmahera and the wester part of Irian Jaya to the north. It connects with the Arafura Sea to the southeast, the Banda Sea to the southwest, and the Halmahera Sea to the north. It is variously spelled Ceram Sea.
Industry:Earth science
One of the seas that comprise the western basin of the Mediterranean Sea. It is located to the north of Corsica between the Balearic Sea to the west and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the east.
Industry:Earth science
