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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 strait joining the Persian Gulf to the west and the Gulf of Oman to the east. It is located at about 56° E and 27° N.
Industry:Earth science
A strait located at around 12° E in the Mediterranean Sea that separates the eastern and western basins. Its shallow sill separates the deep waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea to the northwest from those of the Ionian Sea to the southeast.
Industry:Earth science
A strait located between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island at around 58°N, 154°W.
Industry:Earth science
A strong northeast wind occurring chiefly in the cool season in the south central Mediterranean. This is also used for the same phenomenon in other parts of the Mediterranean, e.g. a “gregal” in France and a “grecale” in the Tyhrrenian Sea.
Industry:Earth science
A strong northeastward flowing current along the Saudi Arabian coast. It is part of the monsoonal circulation in the area and as such exists from about April through October, being fully established by mid-May with velocities ranging form 0.5-0.8 m/s. It is also part of a strong coastal upwelling system during those months when it flows strongest.
Industry:Earth science
A strong, squally southwesterly wind in the central Mediterranean, most common in winter.
Industry:Earth science
A study designed to investigate the Kuroshio Extension System from 2001 to 2005. The goal is to understand the mechanisms that govern the Kuroshio Extension and associated recirculation gyre variability, and to identify the processes responsible for interannual variations in upper–ocean heat content and SST in the region. The objectives of KESS are:
to demonstrate the capability of tomographic techniques in monitoring the variabiity of the 1000 km scale 3–D oceanic structures; and
to obtain information about the acoustic environment for the design of the tomography array. KESS will deploy eight reciprocal tomography moorings in the Kuroshio Extension (centered on 35°N, 150°W) for four years to study the climatological relevance of the Kuroshio Extension/mode water variability.
Industry:Earth science
A study whose main goal is to assess the internal variability of the Mediterranean thermohaline circulation as induced by deep and intermediate water formation processes and the inflow/outflow system at Gibraltar on the seasonal and interannual time scales.
Industry:Earth science
A subfilter closure model applied in spectral wavenumber space rather than physical space which considers interactions between resolved and subfilter wavenumbers by considering the statistics of their possible interactions. The EDQNM achieves closure by modeling the 4th spectral moments. The is one of several closure techniques used when applying large eddy simulation model.
Industry:Earth science
A subsidiary body of the IOC and the WMO established to meet the scientific, managerial, implementation, and resource needs of WOCE. See the IWP Web site81.
Industry:Earth science
