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TEX86
TEX86 is a paleothermometer that reconstructs past sea surface temperature from archaeal membrane lipids preserved in marine sediments, applied to ocean temperatures across roughly 190 million years of Earth history.
Thar Desert
The Thar Desert, also called the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region of about 0.2 million km² in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan, mostly in Rajasthan.
Tharsis Tholus
Tharsis Tholus, a small basaltic shield volcano in eastern Tharsis, Mars, near 13.5N 91W, about 155 km across and 9 km high, uniquely cut by large normal faults through its whole edifice, with a deep 6.8 km caldera and Early Hesperian age.
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 Roland Emmerich disaster film about abrupt climate change causing a sudden ice age, starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal; it grossed $552.6 million, scored 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, and measurably raised public climate concern.
The End We Start From
The End We Start From: 2023 British climate-disaster drama, Mahalia Belo's debut feature, adapted by Alice Birch from Megan Hunter's 2017 novel; stars Jodie Comer as an unnamed new mother fleeing flooded London; premiered at TIFF 2023, released January 2024.
The Ministry for the Future
The Ministry for the Future is a 2020 climate-fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson about a UN agency, created after a deadly heat wave, that works to steer the world toward decarbonization.
The Oceanography Society
The Oceanography Society is an American nonprofit professional society founded in 1988, which publishes the open-access journal Oceanography and supports meetings like the Ocean Sciences Meeting.
The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel, also known as weather.com, is an American weather television network launched in 1982, known for forecasts, storm coverage, and its mobile app.
Theory of the Earth
Theory of the Earth is James Hutton's 1788 geological work arguing that internal heat drives an endless cycle of erosion, deposition, and uplift over immense time.
Theory of tides
The theory of tides explains the sea's periodic rise and fall through the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun, beginning with Newton in 1687.
Thermal expansion of seawater
Thermal expansion of seawater is the increase in ocean volume as water warms, a thermosteric effect that raises sea level and was a leading contributor to twentieth-century sea-level rise.
Thermal infrared remote sensing
Thermal infrared remote sensing measures radiation emitted, not reflected, by the Earth's surface at roughly 7–14 µm, deriving surface temperature and mineral composition from it.
Thermal low
A thermal low, also called a heat low, is a shallow area of surface low pressure produced by strong heating of the lower troposphere, common over hot subtropical deserts.
Thermal pollution
Thermal pollution, or heat pollution, is water quality degradation caused by discharging water at a temperature different from the receiving body, most often heated cooling water from power stations.
Thermal refugia
Thermal refugia are discrete patches of relatively cool water in rivers and streams where coldwater organisms like salmon and trout find relief from warm temperatures.
Thermal regime
A thermal regime, in stream ecology, is the characteristic pattern of water temperature in a river or stream through time, described by magnitude, variability, frequency, duration, and timing of temperatures.
Thermal wind
The thermal wind is the vertical shear of the geostrophic wind, a key relation in atmospheric dynamics showing how horizontal temperature gradients control wind change with height.
Thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling
Thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) coupling is a modeling framework that solves heat transfer, fluid flow, and mechanical deformation together in porous media, originating in nuclear waste disposal.
Thermobarometry
Thermobarometry is the quantitative determination of the temperature and pressure at which a metamorphic or igneous rock reached chemical equilibrium, typically the thermal maximum of the rock's history.
Thermochemical sulfate reduction
Thermochemical sulfate reduction (TSR) is the abiotic redox reaction in which sulfate is reduced to hydrogen sulfide while hydrocarbons are oxidized, souring more than 50 large gas fields worldwide.
Thermochronology
Thermochronology is a family of geochronologic dating methods that determine when and how fast rocks cooled through temperature-sensitive isotopic and fission-track systems, reconstructing a rock's thermal history.
Thermocline
The thermocline, also called the metalimnion in lakes, is the water layer where temperature drops fastest with depth, separating warm surface water from the deep ocean.
Thermohaline circulation
Thermohaline circulation, also called the global conveyor belt, is the global system of deep-ocean currents driven by density differences from temperature and salinity, turning over all deep water roughly every 600 years.
Thermoremanent magnetization
Thermoremanent magnetization (TRM) is the permanent magnetization acquired when a ferrimagnetic material cools below its Curie temperature in a magnetic field, recording the geomagnetic field.
Thermosalinograph
A thermosalinograph (TSG) is a shipboard instrument that continuously measures sea surface temperature and salinity along a ship's track, using seawater drawn through a pumped intake while the vessel is underway.
Thermosphere
The thermosphere is the atmospheric layer from about 80 to 700 km altitude, where temperatures can exceed 2000 °C and the International Space Station orbits within it.
Thin section
A thin section is a slice of rock or mineral, typically about 30 micrometers thick, mounted on a glass slide and examined under a polarizing microscope to identify minerals.
Tholeiitic basalt
Tholeiitic basalt is a silica-saturated variety of basalt, defined by hypersthene among its pyroxenes, and is the dominant basalt of the ocean floor and of flood-basalt provinces such as the Columbia River Basalt Group.
Thomas Fire
The Thomas Fire was a wildfire that began near Santa Paula, California on December 4, 2017, burning 281,893 acres and at the time becoming the state's largest recorded wildfire.
THORPEX
THORPEX (The Observing-system Research and Predictability Experiment) was a ten-year international weather research program under the World Meteorological Organization, established in 2003 and run from 2005 to 2014.