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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 ...
Established in 1989 at WHOI to serve the ocean sciences community with high-precision C-14 AMS measurements. See the NOSAMS Web site117.
Industry:Earth science
Established in 1990 by the CCCO of SCOR/IOC and the Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) of the ICSU/WMO. The panel’s task was to formulate a conceptual design of a long–term, systematic observing system to monitor, describe, and understand the physical and biogeochemical processes that determine ocean circulation and the effects of the ocean on seasonal to decadal climate changes and to provide the observations needed for climate predictions. The panel published seven background reports and a final report in 1995 before reforming as the OOPC. The reports were:
Industry:Earth science
Established in Nov. 1965 by the IOC. The ITIC monitors the activities of the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific, making use of 31 seismic stations, 79 tidal stations, and 101 dissemination points scattered across the Pacific. It also has a public education program directed towards coastal residents and other interested parties.
Industry:Earth science
Established in the Hydrographic Department of the Maritime Safety Agency in 1965 to fulfill the role of the marine data bank of Japan, acquiring marine data sets obtained by various research institutes and providing users with the data.
Industry:Earth science
Established to complement existing open ocean stations in the eastern boundary regime of the North Atlantic. Regular observations started in 1994 at a nominal station position of 29° 10’ N, 15° 30’ W, a site about 100 km north of the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife at a depth of 3600 m.
Industry:Earth science
Etat de la mer et T´el´ed´etection en condition de fetCH variable experiment in the Mediterranean Sea, which took place in March and April 1998. The objective was to measure and parameterize the turbulent fluxes at the ocean/atmosphere interface.
Industry:Earth science
Founded in 1983 as the successor to the Marine Station of the Academy in existence in Sopot since 1953. The institute is divided into departments for marine physics, hydrodynamics, marine chemistry and biochemistry, and marine ecology.
Industry:Earth science
FRAM is a primitive equation numerical of the Southern Ocean between latitudes 24S and 79S based on the Cox/Bryan model. See Group (1991) and the FRAM Web site36.
Industry:Earth science
Frequently observed, distinct sea surface patterns with a horizontal scale of around 10 km. The eddies are large–scale arrangements of sea slicks or streaks with a spacing on the order of 1 km and width 100 m. The streaks are domains of reduced surface roughness that make them visible to remote instruments such as SAR and space shuttle cameras, and are caused by surface convergence. The eddies have been observed in both hemispheres in both coastal areas and the open ocean. They generally appear in an interconnected pattern. They range from 100-25 km in size and are overwhelmingly cyclonic.
Industry:Earth science
From Bˆacle et al. (2002): In the following discussion we distinguish between terms that describe water masses (based on straight theta-S diagrams and origins) and those that describe the structure of the water column that comprises these water masses (based on theta and S profiles, sections and maps, e.g., haloclines, layers, mode waters). Following McLaughlin et al. (1996), the term water-mass assembly is used to describe the basic arrangement or vertical stacking of water masses within the region, recognising that components within an assembly can vary spatially.
Industry:Earth science
