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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Physical oceanography

NOAA Communications Network (NOCN)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A system created to serve the communications and data quality enhancement needs of the NOAA ocean community.

Large Aggregate Profiling System (LAPS)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A system for counting the number and size distribution of particles in sea water ranging from 250 microns to several millimeters in size. LAPS consists of a video camera synchronized with a strobe ...

Equatorial Pacific Information Collection (EPIC)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A system for management, display, and analysis of oceanographic in-situ data. This was developed at the NOAA PMEL to manage the large numbers of hydrographic and time series oceanographic in-situ ...

World Data Center (WDC)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A system of facilities established within the framework of the IOC IODE program to receive oceanographic data and inventories from NODCs, RNODCs, marine science organizations, and individual ...

core layer method

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A systematic attempt to apply hydrography to describe the waters of the ocean as developed by Wust and his students in the 1930s. In this method he distinguished between different core layers ...

water mass analysis

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A technique introduced by Jacobsen (1927) as a graphical method for determining mixing coefficients in a T–S diagram. It was extended by W¨ust in 1935 who developed his core layer method. This was ...