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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 ...
An ocean basin located to the west of the Canary Islands in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. This is bound to the north by the Azores Rise and is mostly composed of the Madeira Abyssal Plain, although a smaller depression called the Seine Abyssal Plain is also found there. This has also been called the Monaco Deep.
Industry:Earth science
An ocean basin lying between Newfoundland and the Azores whose floor is transected by the Mid-Ocean Canyon joining the Labrador Basin with the Sohm Abyssal Plain. It is separated from basins to the south by the Southeast Newfoundland Ridge.
Industry:Earth science
An ocean circulation model developed at MPI. It is based on the primitive equations and designed specifically to model global scale geostrophic circulation. The nonlinear advection of momentum is neglected and fast gravity waves are strongly damped via an implicit time integration scheme that uses a time step of 30 days. An upstream advection scheme us used for salinity and temperature transport and vertical convective mixing is applied when the stratification becomes unstable. The Arakawa E-grid is used for horizontal discretization and a small horizontal diffusion specified to alleviate the inherent mode-splitting problems of this grid scheme. Sea ice is computed from a heat balance and by advection by ocean currents with a simplified viscous rheology.
Industry:Earth science
An ocean color sensor to study ocean productivity and interactions between the ocean ecosystems and the atmosphere. For more information see the SeaWiFs Web site146.
Industry:Earth science
An ocean color sensor. It is a push-broom instrument that measures the radiation reflected from the Earth’s surface and from clouds in the visible and near-infrared range during the daytime. The 1150 km wide swatch of the instrument is divided into 5 segments covered by 5 identical cameras having corresponding fields of view with slight overlap between adjacent cameras. The geophysical parameters derived from MERIS measurements include ocean color in open and coastal waters, e.g. chlorophyll, gelbstoffe, and other pigments, qualitative parameters such as presence ofclouds and emerged land, and atmospheric parameters like aerosol optical thickness, cloud albedo, Angstrom exponent, top pressure, and water vapor column contents.
Industry:Earth science
An ocean general circulation model (OGCM) developed at the Max–Planck–Institut f¨ur Meteorologie in Hamburg, Germany.
Industry:Earth science
An ocean general circulation model developed by the ECUME team at the Laboratoire d’Oc´eanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (LODYC). It is a primitive equation model applied to both regional and global ocean circulation. It can be interfaced with several sea ice models, a passive and biogeochemical tracer model, and several AGCMs. It also has adjoint and tangent linear models.
Industry:Earth science
An ocean mapping activity sponsored by the IOC, UNESCO, and the German government. The initial mission of the project is to create a new bathymetric mapping of the Western Indian Ocean, with future missions involving the mapping of other measurements such as sediment thickness, potential fields, and geological structure. The German Hydrographic Office (GHO) is taking the responsibility for providing project coordination, editing, conversion to digital media, printing, and distribution of the new bathymetry. The IBCWIO is coordinate with four other international regional ocean mapping projects sponsored by the IOC: IBCCA, IBCWP, IBCEA, and IBCM, with the project also coordinate with GEBCO.
Industry:Earth science
An ocean time series station established in 1998 at the southwestern margin of the subarctic gyre at 44°N, 155°E. The objectives include studies of CO2 uptake and its relationship to biological activity in the seasonally variable ocean. The planned measurements include CTD sampling, JGOFS core measurements, deployment of moored sediment traps at 1.3 and 5 km, a shallow optical buoy, and free–drifting sediment traps.
Industry:Earth science
An oceanographic expedition taking place in 1929–1930 in the southwest Pacific Ocean.
Industry:Earth science
