- 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 ...
Conducted between May 28 and June 6, 1993 aboard the CSS Hudson as the second leg of a collaborative research cruise between the IRSA of Italy and the BIO of Canada. Water was collected along a cross–basin transect from up to 13 depths between 0 and 120 meters, concentrated by gentle filtration, and a pump–and–probe fluorometer was used to estimate the minimum and maximum fluorescence yields on phytoplankton.
Industry:Earth science
Conducted from 1984 to 1986 in the subtropical convergence zone southwest of Bermuda. The overall objective was to study air-sea interaction on 1- to 100-km horizontal scales in a region of the open ocean characterized by strong horizontal gradients in upper ocean and sea surface properties. Among the specific questions addressed by this investigation were how lower atmospheric fluxes vary horizontally on scales determined by scales of oceanic variability, how strong horizontal sea surface temperature gradients associated with fronts affect the structure of the marine atmospheric boundary layer, what the magnitudes of changes in surface roughness, stress, and drag coefficients associated with cross-frontal gradients in SST are, and others.
Industry:Earth science
Conducted from Nov. 13 to Dec. 10, 1995 over the Bathurst and Melville Islands located approximately 50 km off the coast of Australia’s North Territory. The basic objective was to improve knowledge of the dynamics and interaction of the physical processes involved in the organization and life cycle of tropical island convection over the Maritime Continent and the role of this convection in the atmosphere energy and moisture balance.
Industry:Earth science
Conducted in 1978 primarily north and west of Scotland. The emphasis was on marine boundary layer dynamics.
Industry:Earth science
Data and Information Service, a NOAA office that manages U.S. civil environmental satellite systems as well as global data bases for meteorology, oceanography, solid-earth geophysics, and solar-terrestrial physics. NESDIS consists of the Offices of Environmental Information Services107, Satellite Operations108, Satellite Data Processing and Distribution109, Research and Applications110, and Systems Development111.
Industry:Earth science
Deacon Laboratory, an institute whose mission is to advance understanding of the ocean environment and processes of environmental change in the oceans and to predict future change by carrying out multidisciplinary studies on the oceans and their boundaries with the air and seabed.
Industry:Earth science
Departures of the time average of the atmospheric circulation from zonal symmetry. They result from east-west variations in surface elevation and temperature associated with the continents and oceans.
Industry:Earth science
Descriptive of a heterotrophic phytoplankton species that feeds on phytoplankton or detritus.
Industry:Earth science
Descriptive of a phytoplankton species that lives primarily by photosynthesis.
Industry:Earth science
Descriptive of a tide that has a cycle of approximately one-half a tidal day, as opposed to diurnal.
Industry:Earth science
