The Ross ice shelf in Antarctica is about 200 feet thick. Often a useful and sufficiently accurate assumption in theoretical descriptions of air flow. This flow is called inertial because both forces are apparent forces, due only to the motion relative to the coordinate system. Water vapor and carbon dioxide are strong infrared absorbers. The process of specifying the initial data or initial conditions for numerical forecast models.
Proper initialization is vital to insuring optimal model forecasts.
Initialization is difficult because of the lack of data available on proper time and space scales and the effect and compounding importance of small initial errors. In situ observations are observations of different types but taken at comparable times and locations. The periods have lasted for approximately 10,000 to 20,000 years. The Earth is currently in an interglacial period which is know as the Holocene. In equilibrium thermodynamics, it a function only of the state of the system.