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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
Mediterreanean Eddy Resolving Modeling and Interdisciplinary Studies (MERMAIDS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A study whose main goal is to assess the internal variability of the Mediterranean thermohaline circulation as induced by deep and intermediate water formation processes and the inflow/outflow system ...
Eddy Damped Quasi-Normal Markovian (EDQNM)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A subfilter closure model applied in spectral wavenumber space rather than physical space which considers interactions between resolved and subfilter wavenumbers by considering the statistics of ...
Intergovernmental WOCE Panel (IWP)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A subsidiary body of the IOC and the WMO established to meet the scientific, managerial, implementation, and resource needs of WOCE. See the IWP Web site81.
RAFOS
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A subsurface float introduced by Thomas Rossby in 1985 that listens to acoustic signals instead of transmitting (like the earlier SOFAR float). At the end of its mission it surfaces by dropping a ...
geopotential surface
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A surface to which the force of gravity is everywhere perpendicular and equal. No work is necessary for the displacement of mass along a potential surface as long as no other forces act in addition ...
Otto Pettersson
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A Swedish chemist and physical oceanographer who organized many of the earliest cooperative cruises in Scandanavian waters and promoted the idea of what would become the ICES.
Buys Ballot’s law
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A synoptic meteorology rule stating that if, in the northern hemisphere, an observer stands with his back to the wind, pressure is lower on his left hand than on his right, while in the southern ...
