- Industry: Education
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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 ...
Planned and coordinated jointly starting in 1968 by the WMO and the ICSU.
Industry:Earth science
Predicting the development and characteristics of ocean surface gravity waves via semiempirical methods. These methods use some theory in their foundation but require basic data for the evaluation of various constants and coefficients. Advances in the state-of-the-art are usually a matter of collecting a larger database of winds and the wave they generate. The two main approaches to wave forecasting are the significant wave method and the wave spectrum method.
Industry:Earth science
Refers to the cycling of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide, carbonates, organic compounds, etc. between various reservoirs, e.g. the atmosphere, the oceans, land and marine biota and, on geological time scales, sediments and rocks. The largest natural exchange fluxes occur between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biota and between the atmosphere and the surface water of the oceans.
Industry:Earth science
Said of a system (an electronic circuit, the climate, etc.) in which the output is not strictly proportional to the input. One consequence of this is that small changes in input can lead to very large and unpredictable changes in output.
Industry:Earth science
Said of the anti-clockwise change of direction of a wind, as opposed to veering.
Industry:Earth science
Said of the clockwise change of the direction of a wind, as opposed to backing.
Industry:Earth science
Scheduled to run from 1995-2010. This program focuses on improving the coupled ocean-atmosphere models used to simulate the structure of El Nino events under the TOGA program, and also to expand the investigation of predictability beyond the tropical Pacific to other oceans and land masses.
Industry:Earth science
Scientific and Cultural Organization, a UN organization founded in 1945 to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication.
Industry:Earth science
Sea ice is defined by the WMO as: Any form of ice found at sea which has originated from the freezing of sea water.
Industry:Earth science
Short-wave solar radiation can pass through the clear atmosphere relatively unimpeded, but long-wave radiation emitted by the warm surface of the Earth is partially absorbed and then reemitted by a number of trace gases in the cooler atmosphere above. Since, on average, the outgoing long-wave radiation balances the incoming solar radiation, both the atmosphere and the surface will be warmer than they would be without the greenhouse gases. A historical perspective and tutorial can be found in Jones and Henderson-Sellers (1990).
Industry:Earth science
