Article: Chemical Oceanography, 3d ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Chemical Oceanography
Targeted News Service;  March 10, 2009 ;     427 words ... ... this grant. This funding opportunity is open to any type of entity. A grant notice from NSF states: "The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemical components, reaction mechanisms, and geochemical pathways within ...

Encyclopedia entry: chemical oceanography
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea;      700+ words ...chemical oceanography is the study of the chemistry of the complex mixture of dilute chemicals in sea water. This is quite unlike classical chemistry ...

Article: SORCE satellite.(NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate ...
Science Scope;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 40% in the Sun's activity, said Woods. Woods is the principal investigator on NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission, launched in 2003 to study how and why variations in the Sun affect Earth's atmosphere and ...

Article: Ultra-accurate gravity map.(Technology Watch)(orbiting Gravity ...
Popular Mechanics;  November 1, 2003 ;     575 words ... ... large errors in data that obscured many important features. The first data from the orbiting Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has rectified this shortcoming. It is a joint effort of NASA and the German government. The first ...

Article: Spacecraft formation flying: relative positioning using ...
GPS World;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... example, the case for the measurement of time-varying gravity field information using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) twin satellites or for future along-track synthetic aperture radar interferometry missions. While ...

Article: The melting of Greenland's ice cap has been accelerating since ...
Geographical;  October 1, 2006 ;     538 words ... ... Greenland's ice cap has been accelerating since 2004, according to data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite. The ice cap is currently melting at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometres per year--two to three ...

Article: New rumble resounds through Pacific. (researchers began the ...
Science News;  December 16, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Oceanographers this month added a new sound to the deep sea in an effort to gauge the Pacific's temperature and to investigate global warming. The experiment, known as Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC), started after 18 months of delays triggered by environmental groups worried about the