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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 collection of tools for wave spectral partitioning with automated swell tracking and storm source identification capabilities. The WITS spectral partitioning steps are: 1. Peak isolation via identifying the paths of steepest ascent leading to each peak in the spectral matrix. 2. Identification and combination of wind sea peaks. 3. Combination of mutual swell peaks. 4. Removal of partitions whose total energy is below a given threshold. 5. Calculation of partition statistics. Swell-tracking is a two step process, with the first being the formation of preliminary groups of swell partitions likely to have been generated by the same source. Next, specific swell events are located within the preliminary groups. Distinct swell source times and locations are calculated from each specific group of swell partitions.
Industry:Earth science
A committee established in June 1993 with the goal of facilitating international cooperation in the development of ocean botton observatories. While originally created for the purposes of seismology, in 1995 it was enlarged to include all geosciences.
Industry:Earth science
A compact airborne imaging spectrometer. This device was designed for the detection of spectral fine structure in coastal waters. See the ROSIS Web site143.
Industry:Earth science
A component of IGBP developed and sponsored by SCOR, the IOC, the ICES, and PICES. Its goal is advance our understanding of the structure and functioning of the global ocean ecosystem, its major subsystems, and its response to physical forcing to where we can develop and capability to forecast the marine upper trophic system response to scenarios of global change. GLOBEC concentrates on zooplankton population dynamics and its response to physical forcing in pursuit of this goal.
Industry:Earth science
A component of the MAST program. This project aims to study the biogeochemical fluxes and processes across the European continental shelf break facing the North Atlantic.
Industry:Earth science
A component of the NASA EOS program that investigates the exchange of mass and energy at the air-ice-ocean interface in the polar regions.
Industry:Earth science
A component of the RIDGE initiative whose goal is to investigate larval dispersal and gene flow in vent environments and evaluate the potential role of these processes in generating and maintaining biogeographic patterns along mid–ocean ridges and across ocean basins.
Industry:Earth science
A component of the U.S. Navy’s Integrated Undersea Surveillance Systems (IUSS) network used for deep ocean surveillance during the cold war. SOSUS consists of bottom–mounted hydrophone arrays connected by undersea communication cables to onshore facilities. The arrays are primarily installed on continental slopes and seamounts at locations optimized for undistorted long range acoustic propagation. Beginning around 1990, the Navy allowed SOSUS to be used for various research activities.
Industry:Earth science
A component of WOCE focused on increasing the knowledge and understanding of deep circulation processes. The primary objectives were:
to observe and quantify the deep circulation within an abyssal basin,
to distinguish between boundary and interior mixing processes,
to understand how passages affect the water flowing through them, and
to study the means by which deep water crosses the equator. Specifically, the DBE examined the deep interior flow of the Brazil Basin with these objectives in mind.
Industry:Earth science
A component study of BALTEX. The objectives are:
to collection and analyze measured and estimated precipitation from different data sources;
to compare different precipitation data sets against each other to identify and establish reliable standards for model validation;
to validate the output of BALTEX Regional Models against such data sets; and
to deveop, test and establish necessary data management and analysis procedures.
Industry:Earth science
