- Industry: Government
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A database, frequently very large, that can access vast arrays of heterogeneous data, stored within a single logical data repository, that are accessible to different querying and manipulation methods . While the warehouse can be distributed over several computers and may contain several databases and information from numerous sources in a variety of formats, it should be accessible through a server. Thus, access to the warehouse is transparent to the user, who can use simple commands to retrieve and analyse all the information. The data warehouse also contains data about how the warehouse is organized, where the information can be found, and any connexions between data. Frequently used for decision support within an organization, the data warehouse also allows the organisation to organise its data, coordinate updates, and see relationships between information gathered from different parts of the organization.
Industry:Natural environment
A large body of water whose density characteristics are distinct from the surrounding aquatic environment because of inherent temperature or salinity differences.
Industry:Natural environment
A slender, flexible appendage or part of an organism, usually having a tactile function.
Industry:Natural environment
A tissue layer of cells which lines body cavities and tubules, or covers surfaces. The cells may be ciliated or non-ciliated, and may be squamous (flat, scale-shaped), cuboidal (cube-shaped), or columnar (column-shaped) in shape. The cells may occur in a single layer, or may be multi-layered (stratified).
Industry:Natural environment
An assemblage of structure-forming deep-sea sponges and other associated species below 50 m .
Industry:Natural environment
Any of several light-colored burrowing crabs of the genus Ocypoda frequenting the tide line along sandy shores from the northeast United States to Brazil. Ghost Crabs have a relatively thin, light exoskeleton and two large black eyes that stand up like periscopes. They are called ghosts because of their ability to instantly disappear from sight, moving at speeds at speeds up to 10 miles per hour, while making sharp directional change and disappearing into their burrows.
Industry:Natural environment
DNA-containing bodies in the cell but external to the nucleus.
Industry:Natural environment
In scuba breathing equipment, the second stage regulator, which is attached to the mouthpiece, reduces the intermediate pressure from the first stage regulator (attached to the air tank) to that needed for comfortable breathing at depth.
Industry:Natural environment
Region in which the climate undergoes seasonal change in temperature and moisture. Temperate regions of the earth lie primarily between 30 and 60 degrees latitude in both hemispheres.
Industry:Natural environment
