| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Earth system science | Aerospace | An integrated approach to the study of the Earth that stresses investigations of the interactions among the Earth's components in order to explain Earth dynamics, evolution, and global change. (references) | |
| Earth System Science Realm: 1 | Aerospace | One of five spatial domains covering the Earth and its vicinity: land, ocean, cryosphere, atmosphere, and Earth's space environment. Each realm has typically fallen within a specialized scientific discipline, such as atmospheric science for the atmosphere, oceanography for the ocean, etc. Each realm has characteristic kinds of measurements that provide quantitative understanding of scientifically interesting phenomena in that realm. Thus, we group the measurement sets into collections for each realm. Defining Communities: Earth Sciences Community. (references) | |
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