- 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 ...
A project whose goal is to verify or falsify the hypothesis of a worsening storm and wave climate in the Northeast Atlantic and its adjacent seas in the 20th century. The main conclusion of the project is that the storm- and wave–climate in most of the Northeast Atlantic and in the North Sea has undergone significant variations on times scales of decades, that is has indeed roughened in the past decades, but that the present intensity seems to cmopare with the intensity at the beginning of the century. Part of the variability was found to be related to the North Atlantic Oscillation.
Industry:Earth science
A project whose goals are:
to turn tomography into a routine, affordable, and operational tool for ocean research, monitoring and forecasting for even non–specialist users;
to increase the acceptance and usage of tomography results as routine data; and
to enable small and medium enterprises to carry out operational applications and provide instrument services in tomography.
Industry:Earth science
A project whose main purpose is to increase the understanding of climate changes and the impact these changes have on the environment in arctic Russian during the last interglacial–glacial cycle. The goals are:
reconstruction of the Barents and Kara Ice Sheets through time;
reconstruction of fauna, vegetation and climate history; and
reconstruction of the history of human settlement.
Industry:Earth science
A project whose overall aim is to develop process understanding and tested numerical models for regions of freshwater influence (i.e. ROFIs). This EC MAST project studies the role of the physical processes controlling water property distributions and the role of suspended sediments in controlling the availability of light, nutrients, and phytoplankton growth.
Industry:Earth science
A project whose primary objective is to optimize the application of existing dynamical models of the North Sea such that the rates and scales of sediment exchange between the coast and the nearshore zone can be quantified for management applications.
Industry:Earth science
A project within BIBEX. STARE is an aircraft– and ground–based measurement program initiated in May 1990 by a committee of scientists from Europe, Brazil and the U.S. to investigate the sources of trace gases, their atmospheric transport, and the chemical processes in the atmosphere which lead to elevated levels of O3, CO, and other trace gases over the southern tropical Atlantic Ocean. The field campaigns conducted under STARE were TRACE-A, SAFARI, and SA’ARI.
Industry:Earth science
A property value or, more often, range of property values by which a water mass can be identified and tracked through the ocean. The most commonly used are temperature, potential temperature, salinity, potential density or the density referenced to a particular depth or pressure. Less often used by still quite valuable for certain applications are oxygen, nitrate, phosphate, silicate, chlorofluorocarbon, carbon 14 and tritium.
Industry:Earth science
A proposed CLIVAR program to put in place in the Pacific Ocean a long–term process experiment to test and improve dynamical models of the ocean processes that participate in climate variability. Specific program objectives are:
to obtain a quantitative description of the low–frequency, three–dimensional circulation and associated thermohaline structure of the upper Pacific Ocean with sufficient accuracy to measure advective fluxes and their divergences;
to test models of this circulation and its intrinsic modes of variability as well as those due to coupling with the atmosphere; and
to understand the processes that couple the tropical and subtropical Pacific oceanic gyres on climatic time scales and to test hypotheses about the role of the ocean in basin–scale variability on a broad range of climate time scales.
Industry:Earth science
A proposed program for establishing coordination of European research activities along the historically studied 20°W meridian from 20 to 60°N. EATTS will be sponsored under the auspices of SOMARE.
Industry:Earth science
A proposed program in the 1995-2004 time frame directed toward the goal of improving the skill of operational seasonal-to-interannual climate prediction (with emphasis on precipitation) over the Americas. It is a sequel to the NOAA EPOCS program. PACS includes the process studies EPIC, NAME and MESA.
Industry:Earth science
