Birth of an iceberg

...the largest glacier in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is of great interest to scientists because it transports ice from the deep interior of the wais to the ocean and its flow rate has accelerated over the past 15 years. The Pine Island Glacier is up to 2500 m thick with a bedrock over 1500 m be...

wais in other areas

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) is a general test of adult intelligence, first published in February 1955 by David Wechsler; the fourth and most recent edition of the test (WAIS-IV) was released in 2008 by Pearson. Wechsler defined intelligence as "The global...

Wide area information server - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wide Area Information Servers or WAIS is a client-server text searching system that uses the ANSI Standard Z39.50 Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specifications for Library Applications" (Z39.50:1988) to search index databases on remote computers....

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

1981 revision is referred to as the WAIS-R. ... Performance WAIS scales ... The WAIS-R is an individual test of intelligence, was a revision of the original ...

LEARN THE NET: Searching Databases

Learn the Internet, a guide to the Internet and World Wide Web: How to ... Find Information: Searching Databases. Gopher, FTP, WAIS, Archie, Veronica, Jughead. ...

WAIS Divide Ice Core Project

WAIS Divide is a United States deep ice coring project in West Antarctica funded ... Registration is now open for the 2009 WAIS Divide Science Meeting to be held at ...

WAIS -- WWW Gateway

When setting up the server as a WAIS gateway, it must be setup with separate ... the WAIS server. WSRC files. The gateway keeps a cache of WAIS "source" files. ...