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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 NOAA project to provide services to help improve and sustain coral reef health throughout the world. The goals include establishing an international network of coral reef researchers to share information about and monitor coral health, providing near real-time data products derived from satellite images and monitoring stations at coral reef areas, providing a data repository for historical data, and adding to the general fund of coral reef knowledge.
Industry:Earth science
A NOAA project to study phytoplankton blooms in the Chesapeak Bay using aircraft remote sensing from 1990 to 1996. ODAS is a relatively simple ocean color instrument developed in the mid-1980s at the NASA GSFC. It consists of 3 radiometers in the blue–green region of the visible spectrum that measure radiance leaving the water at 460, 490 and 520 nm, a spectral region sensitive to changes in chlorophyll concentrations. The measurements were made in low altitude (150 m) surveys using a De Havilland Beaver aircraft, with over 200 flights made during the program.
Industry:Earth science
A NOAA/OAR/AOML program to study the dynamics of physical, geological, chemical and biological processes as they are influenced by the runoff from the Mississippi River and Atchafalaya Bay. The main objectives of the study include describing a clear anthropogenic signal and any resultant nutrient-enhanced productivity of significant magnitude and demonstrating the impact of enhanced production on coastal environmental quality.
Industry:Earth science
A non–frontal, synoptic scale, low pressure system originating over tropical or subtropical waters with organized convection and definite cyclonic wind circulation.
Industry:Earth science
A NOPP funded program to develop a real–time observational network on the continental shelf offshore of South Carolina and Georgia. The network consists of eight large offshore platforms – currently operated by the U.S. Navy for flight training – being instrumented to provide a range of oceanographic and meteorological observations on a continuous, real–time basis. The grid covers an area of 155 km by 50 km and a depth range from 25 to 45 m, with an existing communcations system allowing high bandwidth, real–time data transmission to shore.
Industry:Earth science
A northwesterly or northerly wind which blows offshore along the north coast of the Mediterranean from the Ebro to Genoa. In the region of its chief development its characteristics are its frequency, its strength, and its dry coldness. It is most intense on the coasts of Languedoc and Provence, especially near the Rhone delta. Its speeds are usually around 40 knots, but can reach over 75 knots in the delta.
Industry:Earth science
A northwesterly wind in the Adriatic, most frequent on the western shore and in summer. This is also applied to northwesterly winds in other parts of the Mediterranean.
Industry:Earth science
A NSSL project begun in 1990 to measure the central Arizona thunderstorm environments, examine the local monsoon structures and moisture fluxes, and study Mexican convective systems. The field operations for SWAMP began in 1990 and included scientists and technicians from several institutes and laboratories.
Industry:Earth science
A number that characterizes the rate of molecular diffusion of heat in a liquid. In the temperature range from 0 to 30°C, this varies from 0.1809 to 0.284 cm2/s for air and from 0.0013 to 0.0015 cm2/s for water.
Industry:Earth science
A numerical approximation algorithm that allows longer time steps than an explicit method and is less computationally onerous than a fully implicit method. Algorithms can usually be designed using this compromise method that both allow the longer time step and don’t sacrifice numerical accuracy.
Industry:Earth science
