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New Sweek
"Trust only me ..." is the urging of despots around the globe, including The Don as the mid-term elections approach.The common folk in free America have a sarcastic response that I like ("who are you...
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Mysterious Zones of Antarctica - 3
Seawater transport @ Southern OceanToday we look deeper into the Southern Ocean current which transports more water than all the rivers of the Earth combined.The graphic to the left depicts a rough...
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Indicted Manafort associate who worked with Cambridge Analytica lied to reporters about working in USTrump Administration Withholds 100K Pages Of Brett Kavanaugh’s RecordsPaul Manafort associate pleads...
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Mysterious Zones of Antarctica - 4
West Indian Ocean [Area A]East Indian Ocean [Area B]Ross Sea [Area C]Amundsen Sea [Area D]Bellingshausen Sea [Area E]Weddell Sea [Area F]I. BackgroundThis will be the last post in this series (unless...
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Mysterious Zones of The Arctic
Fig. 1 Zones with Arctic CurrentsI. ForewardThe graphic at Fig. 1 shows the WOD Zones featured in this series.These zones are where currents from the south flow through them into Arctic area waters.Two...
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How To Identify The Despotic Minority - 3
Who ya gonna call?I. BackgroundEach post in this series points out a way to detect "the despotic minority."That phrase means nothing unless and until we know what a despotic minority is.In the context...
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Mysterious Zones of The Arctic - 2
Fig. 1 Location of Beaufort GyreI. BackgroundIn the first post of this series I focused on ingress into the Arctic Ocean from both the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans (Mysterious Zones of The...
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Databases Galore - 22
New DatasetsI have a new announcement concerning the World Ocean Database (WOD) used here on Dredd Blog.In the past I have used only the CTD and PFL datasets to generate graphs and generally explore...
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Mysterious Zones of The Arctic - 3
Fig. 1 Beaufort Gyer safe rotationBefore I drop into the processing of the new datasets I mentioned (Databases Galore - 22), I want to finish up on this post in this series.The graphic at Fig. 1 shows...
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Databases Galore - 23
Fig. 1 Modified WOD Yearly Data SchemeJust in case you regular readers think I have been goofing off, this is a status report.As you know I decided to go "whole hog" on the World Ocean Database (WOD)...
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The World According To Measurements - 20
Fig. 1 Latitude LayersI am now using the new and increased quantities of the The World Ocean Database (WOD).Each dataset type (APB, CTD, DRB, GLD, DBT, MBT, MRB, OSD, PFL, SUR, UOR, and XBT) has been...
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Databases Galore - 24
Fig. 1 WOD Zones (Quadrants & LayersHey gang.I just dropped in to update you on the progress of bringing the entire World Ocean Database (WOD) to Dredd Blog readers (see Databases Galore - 22 and...
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Hot, Warm, & Cold Thermal Facts: Tidewater-Glaciers - 5
Fig. 1Area A-F MeltingIn this series we talk about the temperature of tidewaters that melt tidewater glaciers (Hot, Warm, & Cold Thermal Facts: Tidewater-Glaciers, 2, 3, 4).As pointed out in this...
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The World According To Measurements - 21
Fig. 1While it might go without saying, nevertheless it is said anyway in some scientific writing:"The ways scientists study the oceans become more and more sophisticated over time. To keep pace with...
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Databases Galore - 25
Fig. 1a Mean Average (CT)Fig. 1b Mean Average (SA)I. Some BackgroundRegular readers know that, as far as deep-ocean characteristics, in the past I typically used only two WOD Datasets (CTD and PFL)...
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On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 37
Fig. 1ThermostericsThe WOD Datasets (Databases Galore - 25) that I am now working with have characteristics (in a couple of them) that thwart the calculation of thermal expansion and other...
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Make Steroids Great Again
New York B4 The SteroidsWhales After The SteroidsOne of the most popular Dredd Blog posts is about plastics (New Continent Found - Garbage Gyre II).That Dredd Blog post caused a stir among young...
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On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 38
Fig. 1 WOD Layers (0-17)I have finished a module that does precision sea level change calculations using all of the WOD datasets that contain both temperature (T) and salinity (SP) measurements (XBT...
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New Slang
Fig. 1More ZonesThe graphic at Fig. 1 shows five oceanographic depth levels of the ocean environment (a.k.a. pelagic zones).I have decided to use the mean average of those 5 depth levels to display...
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How To Identify The Despotic Minority - 4
Is the joke on us?I. Hiding in Plain SightOne of the "sights unseen" concerning a developing despotic minority is that they can become stronger than the majority at some point.This is the case in the...
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