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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 shallow embayment of the eastern North Atlantic bounded by Southern Ireland, southwest Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. It is usually separated from the Irish Sea by a line drawn from Ramsey Island to Carnsore Point and from the English Channel by a line drawn from Ushant to Lands End. The seaward limit is usually set at the slope break at about 165–185 m.
Industry:Earth science
A shallow sea on a wide portion of a continental shelf or in the interior of a continent. The former type is also known as a shelf sea. Compare to epeiric sea and inland sea.
Industry:Earth science
A shallow sea that occupies a portion of a wide continental shelf. This is one type of epicontinental sea. Compare to epeiric sea and inland sea.
Industry:Earth science
A shallow strait that separates the eastern Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean Sea.
Industry:Earth science
A shuttle experiment that took place from Feb. 1979 through Jun. 1980. It included 15 approximately monthly cruises on a track running directly south from Hawaii to 4°S, east to 153°W, north to 12°N, east to 150°W, and then south to the island of Papeete at around 18°S. The ships involved collected CTD data every 1° of latitude or longitude, and occupied profiling current meter stations every 1° between 6°S and 10°N (with additional half–degree stations with 3° of the equator). Acoustic Doppler current profiles were collected continuously along the ship’s track, which was traversed in alternate directions. A set of three vector–averaging current meter moorings were also maintained during the experiment.
Industry:Earth science
A simple, non-dynamic ocean model used in coupled model simulations. SSTs are calculated from surface energy balance and heat storage in a fixed-depth mixed layer but there are no ocean currents, i.e. we account for the effects of local and temporal but not non-local processes. The salient equilibration time of this type of model is that of the slab ocean, usually on the order of about 20 years for a 50 m thick slab.
Industry:Earth science
A situation in which the increased availability of nutrients such as nitrate and phosphate (e.g. from the use of agricultural fertilizers and the combustion of fossil fuels) stimulates the growth of plants such that the oxygen content is depleted and carbon sequestered. It is hypothesized that this might serve as a negative feedback to an increase in atmospheric CO2.
Industry:Earth science
A slow southward cold water movement into the Polar Front in the Japan Sea. This is also known as the Maritime Province Current.
Industry:Earth science
A small first–order mean velocity near the bottom in the direction of wave motion that occurs in the presence of the vortical bottom boundary layer in water of finite depth.
Industry:Earth science
A small sea contained within the Visayan Islands that comprise the central portion of the Philippines. It is centered at approximately 124° E and 12° N and connected to the Visayan Sea to the southwest, the Philippine Sea to the northeast via the San Bernardino Strait, and the Sibuyan Sea to the northwest.
Industry:Earth science
