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Physical oceanography
The scientific study of the physical conditions and processes related to the motions and physical properties of ocean currents and waters.
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Physical oceanography
Surface WAve Processes Program (SWAPP)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An experiment conducted off the coast of California in 1990 and concerned with wave breaking and the interaction between surface waves and upper ocean boundary layer dynamics. The scientific goals ...
Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment (EMEX)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An experiment conducted over the tropical oceanic area north of Australia in Jan.-Feb. 1987. It explored the vertical air motions and other kinematic properties of tropical mesocale convective-cloud ...
Surface WAve Dynamics Experiment (SWADE)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An experiment performed in the fall of 1990 off the coast of Virginia which was primarily concerned with the evolution of the directional wave spectrum, wind forcing and wave dissipation, the effect ...
North Equatorial Current Bifurcation Region Experiment (NECBRE)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An experiment planned by JAMSTEC to start in around 2006. The plan is to make tomographic observations of the North Equatorial Current bifurcation region in the Philippine Sea after the conclusion of ...
Fronts and Atlantic Storm Experiment (FASTEX)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An experiment scheduled to take place from Feb.-Mar. 1997 whose aim is to advance the understanding and prediction of wintertime, oceanic, extra-tropical weather systems. It is designed to improve ...
PRIMER
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An experiment taking place during the summer of 1996 and the winter/early spring of 1997 that focused on the shelfbreak front just south of Cape Code on Nantucket Shoals.
IronEx I
Earth science; Physical oceanography
An experiment taking place in October 1993 that marked the first attempt to experimentally manipulate an ocean ecosystem. A single pulse of iron was added to a 64 square kilometer patch of water in ...
