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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 ...
That organic matter (particulate and dissolved) exported from the upper productive layer of the ocean into the deep sea to balance primary production over large time and space scales. This is primarily studied with sediment traps moored in the deep ocean and with freely drifting traps in the upper 1000 m.
Industry:Earth science
That part of a boundary layer where the viscous stress is much larger than the Reynolds stress.
Industry:Earth science
That part of the climate system consisting of the ice fields of Antarctica and Greenland, other continental snow and ice fields, sea ice and permafrost. At present the Antarctic ice sheet holds 89.3% 106 of the total global ice mass, with the Greenland ice sheet holding 8.6% and mountain glaciers and permafrost holding 0.76% and 0.95%, respectively. The remaining 0.39% is distributed among seasonal snow and sea ice.
Industry:Earth science
That part of the ocean circulation driven by temporal and spatial differences in both the salinity and temperature of the waters that comprise the world ocean. A simplified schematic model of this circulation is the conveyor belt model.
Industry:Earth science
That velocity that would be measured by tracking a dyed particle in a fluid. Compare to Eulerian velocity and Stokes velocity.
Industry:Earth science
That velocity which would be measured by a current meter at a fixed point. Compare and contrast to Lagrangian velocity and Stokes velocity
Industry:Earth science
That which occurs when a function, theoretically represented exactly as the summation of an infinite (or otherwise bloody huge) number of terms, is represented by a smaller subset of these terms. The difference between the exact function and the function represented by the finite number of terms is called the truncation error. This is one of several kinds of errors inherent in representing a continuous world discretely on computers.
Industry:Earth science
That which the Kuroshio Current becomes when it separates from the continental rise at about 35° N in the western North Pacific Ocean. It flows eastward from this point as a strong jet which, given the proclivities of such things, evinces a strong instability. This is seen in two regions of north- and south-ward shift called the “First Crest” and the “Second Crest”, centered at approximately 140° E and 152° E, respectively, with a node near 147° E. East of these features the Shatsky Rise produces another region of alternate (but less regular) paths, followed by a passage over the Emperor Seamounts where it breaks up into filaments which partly comprise the North Pacific Current. The Kuroshio Extension is part of the overall wind-driven subtropical gyre circulation cell that exists in the North Pacific Ocean.
Industry:Earth science
The “potential vorticity” guy. Ertel’s fundamental work in theoretical meteorology and the application of fluid dynamics to meteorological and geophysical problems, culminating in his general vortex theorem, provided a key element in the transition from classical to modern meteorology and geophysical hydrodynamics. His results meanwhile have found manifold application in all parts of meteorological and geophysical science.
Industry:Earth science
The acceleration with which a body would freely fall under the action of gravity in a vacuum. This actually varies with the distance from the center of the Earth as well as with geographical location (due to the inhomogeneities in the solid Earth), but the internationally adopted value is 9.80665 m/s2 or 32.1740 ft/s2.
Industry:Earth science
