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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Newfoundland Basin

Earth science; Physical oceanography

An ocean basin lying between Newfoundland and the Azores whose floor is transected by the Mid-Ocean Canyon joining the Labrador Basin with the Sohm Abyssal Plain. It is separated from basins to the ...

Large scale geostrophic model (LSG)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

An ocean general circulation model (OGCM) developed at the Max–Planck–Institut f¨ur Meteorologie in Hamburg, Germany.

Numerical stability

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In numerical modeling, a numerical computational scheme is said to be stable if the infinite set of computed solutions of the discrete algebraic equations created by the process of discretization of ...

Dependent variable

Earth science; Physical oceanography

In numerical modelling 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...