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36 relations: Argo, Argos system, Buoyancy, CLIVAR, David Morrison (astrophysicist), Dean Roemmich, Density, El Niño, Eos (magazine), Float (oceanographic instrument platform), Global Ocean Observing System, Global Positioning System, Global warming, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf Stream, Integrated Ocean Observing System, IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Kuroshio Current, NetCDF, Ocean acoustic tomography, Ocean current, Ocean heat content, Ocean Surface Topography Mission, Pacific Ocean, Pressure, Rossby radius of deformation, Salinity, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Sea surface microlayer, Skeptical Inquirer, Southern Ocean, Temperature, The Guardian, Underwater glider, World Meteorological Organization.
Argo
In Greek mythology, Argo (in Greek: Ἀργώ) was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcos to Colchis to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
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Argos system
Argos is a satellite-based system which collects, processes and disseminates environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms worldwide.
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Buoyancy
In physics, buoyancy or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object.
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CLIVAR
CLIVAR (climate variability and predictability) is a component of the World Climate Research Programme.
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David Morrison (astrophysicist)
David Morrison (born 26 June 1940) is an American astronomer, a senior scientist at the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
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Dean Roemmich
Dean Roemmich is a contemporary American physical oceanographer.
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Density
The density, or more precisely, the volumetric mass density, of a substance is its mass per unit volume.
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El Niño
El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (commonly called ENSO) and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific (between approximately the International Date Line and 120°W), including off the Pacific coast of South America.
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Eos (magazine)
Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, is a weekly magazine of Earth science published by John Wiley & Sons for the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
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Float (oceanographic instrument platform)
A float (not to be confused with a drifter) is an oceanographic instrument platform used for making subsurface measurements in the ocean.
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Global Ocean Observing System
The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) is a global system for sustained observations of the ocean comprising the oceanographic component of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS).
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Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.
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Global warming
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.
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Gulf of Alaska
The Gulf of Alaska (Golfe d'Alaska) is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found.
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Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension the North Atlantic Drift, is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and stretches to the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
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Integrated Ocean Observing System
The Integrated Ocean Observing System is an organization of systems that routinely and continuously provides quality controlled data and information on current and future states of the oceans and Great Lakes from the global scale of ocean basins to local scales of coastal ecosystems.
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IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the fifth in a series of such reports.
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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information concerning climate change, its potential effects, and options for adaptation and mitigation.
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Kuroshio Current
The is a north-flowing ocean current on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean.
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NetCDF
NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
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Ocean acoustic tomography
Ocean acoustic tomography is a technique used to measure temperatures and currents over large regions of the ocean.
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Ocean current
An ocean current is a seasonal directed movement of sea water generated by forces acting upon this mean flow, such as wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbing, temperature and salinity differences, while tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon.
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Ocean heat content
Oceanic heat content (OHC) is the heat stored in the ocean.
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Ocean Surface Topography Mission
The Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) on the Jason-2 satellite is an international Earth observation satellite mission that continues the sea surface height measurements begun in 1992 by the joint NASA/CNES TOPEX/Poseidon mission and followed by the NASA/CNES Jason-1 mission launched in 2001.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Pressure
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
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Rossby radius of deformation
In atmospheric dynamics and physical oceanography, the Rossby radius of deformation is the length scale at which rotational effects become as important as buoyancy or gravity wave effects in the evolution of the flow about some disturbance.
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Salinity
Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water (see also soil salinity).
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography, or Scripps) in La Jolla, California, founded in 1903, is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and Earth science research, public service, undergraduate and graduate training in the world.
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Sea surface microlayer
The sea surface microlayer (SML) is the top 1000 micrometers (or 1 millimeter) of the ocean surface.
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Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason.
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Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean or the Austral Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
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Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Underwater glider
An underwater glider is a type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that uses small changes in its buoyancy in order to move up and down in the ocean like a profiling float.
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World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 191 Member States and Territories.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(oceanography)
