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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 accuracy of modern XBT probes is about 0.05° C and most used are rated to 760 m depth.
Industry:Earth science
The activity of routinely making, disseminating, and interpreting measurements of the seas and oceans so as to provide continuous forecasts of the future condition of the sea for as far ahead as possible, provide the most usefully accurate description of the present state of the sea including living resources, and assemble climatic long term datasets to provide data for the description of past states as well as time series showing trends and changes. This usually proceeds via the rapid transmission of observational data to computerized data assembly centers. There they are processed through numerical models to generate products for various applications.
Industry:Earth science
The alternation of easterly and westerly winds in the equatorial stratosphere with an interval between successive corresponding maxima of 20 to 36 months. The regimes start at about 30 km and propagate downwards at about one kilometer per month.
Industry:Earth science
The amount of water that would be evaporated from a land or water surface if the water supply were unlimited, as opposed to actual evaporation. The latter will fall below the former when the water at the evaporating surface is somehow limited.
Industry:Earth science
The angle at which the component of the wind speed acting in the direction of a wave field is equal to the wave speed. From Baker, Jr. et al. (1966).
Industry:Earth science
The assumption that a process is statistically stationary, and therefore ensemble averaging is equivalent to averaging over time.
Industry:Earth science
The atmospheric equivalent of an oceanic western boundary current. An example originates with the southwest monsoon that, fed partly from a northward extension of the easterly trade winds over the southern Indian ocean, develops in May. It turns northward and crosses the Equator in the vicinity of the African coast, confined by the highlands of Kenya and Ethiopia. This causes the winds to assume the familiar jet-like structure seen in western boundary currents in the oceans.
Industry:Earth science
The basic unit of temporal resolution in a numerical model created by discretizing a continuum differential equation to create an analogous discrete algebraic equation. The model time advances by discrete steps as opposed to the (at least perceived) continuum nature of time in the real world.
Industry:Earth science
The belts of variable, light winds and fine weather associated with the subtropical anticyclones The name originated with the historical sailing practice of throwing the horses being transported to America or the West Indies overboard when these latitudes were reached and the light winds caused the voyage to be overly extended.
Industry:Earth science
The branch of limnology that studies of past fresh water, saline and brackish environments. This is done in large part by taking cores from a limnological sediment system and examining the geological, biological and chemical components preserved in the core.
Industry:Earth science
