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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 ...
A western boundary current that flows south-southwestward between the African coast and Madagascar from about 10 to 35° S. The flow has been estimated at about 6 Sv near 15° S increasing to 15 Sv near 20° as the northward looping East Madagascar Current turns back towards the south and joins it. This combined flow eventually becomes the major part of the Agulhas Current.
Industry:Earth science
A westward flow in the Atlantic and Pacific located north of the NECC past 10° N. In the Indian Ocean this and the NECC are seasonally controlled by the monsoon circulation patterns.
Industry:Earth science
A westward flowing equatorial current in the Pacific Ocean that underlies the eastward– flowing Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC).
Industry:Earth science
A WHOI research program designed to study the response of the oceanic surface boundary layer over the continental shelf to atmospheric forcing. SMILE took place over the northern California shelf between Pt. Arena and Pt. Reyes from mid–November to mid–May 1989.
Industry:Earth science
A wind blowing from the ocean towards land caused by the effects of differential heating. In the summer when the land surface is warmer than the ocean, the air over the land heats up more than over the ocean, expands and becomes less dense, and rises. This rising air is replaced, due to the constraints of continuity, with moisture–rich air from over the oceans.
Industry:Earth science
A wind of the geological past. The practical geological indicators of paleowind are several scalar properties (bed thickness, grain size and sorting, mineral proportions) and directional structures (dune forms, yardangs and wind furrows, dune cross-bedding, windblown trees, wind ripples, adhesion ripples, flues and grooves). Such an indicator can be an effective paleoclimatic tool only if it is reasonably common, of high geological preservation potential, easily recognized and measured, and capable of unique or at least statistical interpretation.
Industry:Earth science
A wind that theoretically exists as a balance between the pressure gradient, Coriolis, and centrifugal forces. It blows along curved isobars with no tangential acceleration. In the case of rotation around a high/low pressure area the centrifugal force is in the same/opposite direction as the pressure gradient force and leads to an increase/decrease in wind speed compared to that calculated for the geostrophic wind resulting from a balance between the Coriolis and pressure gradient forces.
Industry:Earth science
A WMO 3–year project for testing the typhoon warning system under real typhoon conditions.
Industry:Earth science
A WOCE component to design and execute a series of baseline calculations of the wind- and thermohaline-driven, large-scale ocean circulation, to make comparisons of these simulations with observations, and to evaluate the performance of the models and identify needed improvements.
Industry:Earth science
A workshop for biological oceanographers and marine ecologists held at Keystone, Colorado from March 1–6, 1998. The goal was to develop an assessment of the field and an attempt to provide a vision of what it could become over the next few decades. Similar workshops were held at the time for physical oceanography (sf APROPOS), ocean chemistry (FOCUS) and marine geology and geophysics (FUMAGES).
Industry:Earth science
