Physical oceanography

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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high pressure center

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In meteorology, a region of relatively high barometric pressure. These are characterized by subsidence at altitude and by divergence near the surface. They predominate at 30 and 90° latitude where ...

shallow atmosphere approximation

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In meteorology, an approximation made to simplify the equations of motion in spherical coordinates where the radial distance r is replaced by a+z, where the altitude z is much smaller than the radius ...

subjective analysis

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In meteorology, the name given to synoptic weather charts prepared by hand since the resulting diagnosis or analysis relied extensively on the subjective judgment of the preparer. Compare to ...

staggered grid

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In numerical analysis this refers to a computational grid in or on which separate dependent variables are represented on alternate or staggered grid points. For example, a 1-D equation set for ...

dependent variable

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In numerical modeling and general mathematics, a variable whose value changes as a function of another variable, i.e. the latter is first specified and the latter then calculated. The specified ...

consistency

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In numerical modeling, a numerical computational scheme is said to be consistent if the discrete algebraic equations created by the process of discretization recover or reduce to the original ...

convergence

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In numerical modeling, a numerical computational scheme is said to be convergent is the solutions to the discrete algebraic equations created by the process of discretization approach the solutions ...