- 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 theoretically hypothesized wind that would exist, when blowing around circular isobars, as a balance between the pressure gradient and the centrifugal force. The Coriolis force is neglected, and as such this is a useful approximation only in low latitudes, e.g. in tropical cyclones.
Industry:Earth science
A third–generation wave model that computes random, short–crested, wind–generated waves in coastal regions and inland waters. The physics accounted for in the SWAN model includes:
wave propagation in time and space, shoaling, refraction due to current and depth, frequency shifting due to currents, and nonstationary depth;
wave generation by wind;
three– and four–wave interactions;
whitecapping, bottom friction, and depth–induced breaking;
wave–induced setup;
propagation from laboratory up to global scales; and
transmission through and reflection from obstacles. A copy of the FORTRAN code is available upon registration.
Industry:Earth science
A tidal prediction table showing the daily high and low tide predictions for a particular location. Contrast with Tide Chart.
Industry:Earth science
A tide completely out of phase with the apparent motions of the principal attracting body, i.e. the lowest heights are directly under the body on opposite sides of the earth.
Industry:Earth science
A tide which is in phase with the apparent motion of the attracting body, whether it be the sun or the moon. It has its local maximums directly under the tide–producing body and on the opposite side of the earth.
Industry:Earth science
A time scale defined as the ratio of the mass of a reservoir to the rate of its removal from that reservoir. In the context of the climate this can be seen as the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and its rate of removal via land and ocean processes.
Industry:Earth science
A TOGA experiment conducted in thr equatorial western Pacific from November 1992 through February 1993. The stated aims of COARE were to describe and understand:
the principal processes responsible for the coupling of the ocean and atmosphere in the western Pacific warm pool system;
the principal atmospheric processes that organize convection in the warm pool region;
the oceanic response to combined buoyancy and wind stress forcing in the western Pacific warm pool region; and
the multiple scale interactions that extend the oceanic and atmospheric influence of the western Pacific warm pool system to other regions and vice–versa. Additional information can be found at the TOGA COARE Web site21.
Industry:Earth science
A tomography experiment planned by IFREMER to study the variability in the subpolar gyre from seasonal to decadal time scales. The goals are to document the transformation of the subpolar mode water and the amplitude of the thermohaline circulation. OVIDE is planned to start in 2002 and includes hydrography, profiling floats, and tomography. It will be based on four tomography moorings that will be installed in the Western European Basin for monitoring the heat content varability of the waters entering and leaving the basin.
Industry:Earth science
A tongue of relatively warm water located at the eastern boundary of the WPWP. It is located at around 10 ° S.
Industry:Earth science
A tongue of relatively warm water located at the eastern boundary of the WPWP. It is located at around 7 ° N.
Industry:Earth science
