- 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 ...
The part of the cyclonic gyre that forms the Guineau Dome that flows northwestward along the west African coast.
Industry:Earth science
The passage intersecting the Balearic topographic ridge between Ibiza and the Iberian peninsula at Cape La Nao. It connects the Balearic Sea to the north with the Algerian Basin to the south. Its width is 80 km at the surface, but drastically narrows with depth down to a sill at 800 m.
Industry:Earth science
The periodic rising and falling of the water that results from the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun acting on the rotating earth. There are related phenomena that occur in the solid earth and the atmosphere called, strangely enough, earth tides and atmospheric tides. The forces that significantly effect the tides of the oceans are the gravitational forces of the sun and moon, the centrifugal force due to the movement of the earth in its orbit, the Coriolis force, and the frictional force due to the movement of the water with respect to its boundaries.
Industry:Earth science
The phase lag of the maximum of a given constituent of an observed tide behind the corresponding maximum of the theoretical equilibrium tide.
Industry:Earth science
The phenomenon wherein the Atlantic South Equatorial Current (SEC) – upon approaching the easternmost tip of South America – splits into the Brazil Current flowing to the south and the North Brazil Current flowing northwestward along the northern coastline of Brazil.
Industry:Earth science
The planning phase of this took place from 1985-86 and the field operations phase during 1987.
Industry:Earth science
The Pliocene Research, Interpretation, and Synoptic Mapping Project, the goals of which include providing modelers with improved quantitative global paleoenvironmental information associated with the warm climates of the Pliocene and providing a forum for data and modeling experts to collaborate in establishing what boundary conditions are needed, planning model experiments, and interpreting and evaluating model results.
Industry:Earth science
The portion of the nearshore zone in which borelike translation waves occur following wave breaking. It extends from the inner breakers shoreward to the swash zone.
Industry:Earth science
The portion of the nearshore zone in which the beach face is alternately covered by the uprush of wave swash and exposed by the backwash.
Industry:Earth science
The portion of the specific volume anomaly that accounts for most of the effects of salinities and temperatures differing from the standard calculation levels of 35 ppt and 0° C, respectively. These three terms account for the individual effects of salinity and temperature perturbations as well as their combined effect.
Industry:Earth science
