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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 ...
In numerical modeling, the process of converting differential equations governing processes occurring in a continuum into equivalent algebraic equations governing processes occurring in a computational grid. This process is guided by considerations of consistency, convergence, and stability.
Industry:Earth science
In oceanography, a process that is the result of a combination of Ekman dynamics and horizontal variations in the wind stress. The resulting convergence and divergence of the surface flow will force vertical water motion called Ekman pumping or suction, respectively.
Industry:Earth science
In oceanography, a term that arises from the derivation of the vertically integrated vorticity equation.
Industry:Earth science
In oceanography, a weakly stratified layer of water that appears when the mixed layer makes a rapid transition between its winter maximum and its summer mimimum. It is created by deep convection during the winter, and several processes are responsible for its restratification during the rest of the year. These processes, in chronological order starting in early spring, are the creation of a fossil thermocline during the ascent of the mixed layer, solar heating below the mixed layer, geostrophic advection, and thermohaline intrusion.
Industry:Earth science
In oceanography, an abbreviation for Conductivity-Temperature-Depth, an instrument for performing oceanographic measurements. The CTD measures (either directly or indirectly) the three most important oceanographic parameters for describing the distribution of water in the ocean: temperature, salinity, and pressure.
Industry:Earth science
In oceanography, descriptive of a combination of temperature and salinity effects.
Industry:Earth science
In oceanography, the process of surface wind stress driving a relatively shallow upper ocean flow that transports water to the left/right and the southern/northern hemisphere.
Industry:Earth science
In oceanography, the time-averaged flow field in a fixed coordinate system. This can be remarkably different from the synoptic mean circulation.
Industry:Earth science
In oceanography, the time-averaged flow field obtained in a coordinate system whose axes are parallel and perpendicular to the instantaneous axis of a particular strong current such as the Gulf Stream. This coordinate system can and does change with time. Compare to Eulerian mean circulation.
Industry:Earth science
