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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 oceanography, the vertical density structure resulting from a balance among atmospheric heating, surface water exchange, freezing, stirring and diffusion of heat, and the horizontal and vertical motion (advection) of waters with different temperature and salinity characteristics.
Industry:Earth science
In oceanography, this refers to a geographical looping of a current away from its original direction to a substantially different direction.
Industry:Earth science
In physical oceanography, a frontal region in the Southern Ocean located at around 61-62° S that separates the Continental Zone to the south and its separate water mass of uniform temperature and low salinity in the upper 500 m from the Antarctic Zone to the north. The term was introduced to demarcate the northern limit of a cold water mass (colder than about 0°C) near the South Shetland Islands having a subsurface isothermal layer extending from about 150 m depth to more than 500 m.
Industry:Earth science
In physical oceanography, a layer where density changes most rapidly with depth. It can be associated with either a thermocline or a halocline.
Industry:Earth science
In physical oceanography, a layer where the vertical change of density is very small and displays a local minimum.
Industry:Earth science
In physical oceanography, a point on a T-S diagram indicative of a water mass. In practice, few if any water masses have T-S values identical to that of their source water types due to transformation by atmosphere-ocean interface processes and/ mixing, but they are almost inevitably within the theoretical standard deviation and as such readily identifiable as to their origin.
Industry:Earth science
