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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
Japan Ocean Data centre (JODC)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Established in the Hydrographic Department of the Maritime Safety Agency in 1965 to fulfil the role of the marine data bank of Japan, acquiring marine data sets obtained by various research ...
Flux (FETCH)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Etat de la mer et T´el´ed´etection en condition de fetCH variable experiment in the Mediterranean Sea, which took place in March and April 1998. The objective was to measure and parameterize the ...
Fine Resolution Antarctic Model
Earth science; Physical oceanography
FRAM is a primitive equation numerical of the Southern Ocean between latitudes 24S and 79S based on the Cox/Bryan model. See Group (1991) and the FRAM Web site36.
Mikhael Lomonosov
Earth science; Physical oceanography
From the Marine Hydrophysical Institute (MHI) of the Ukrainian Academy of Science in Sevastopol and the
Central Water
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, a term used to identify thermocline water masses in all three oceans. The water arrives at the thermocline via a process known as subduction. Central Water is characterised ...
Continental Zone
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, a region in the Southern Ocean between the Southern ACC Front and the continent of Antarctica. It is characterised hydrographically by a water mass of uniform temperature ...
Equatorial Countercurrent
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In physical oceanography, a subsurface eastward flow that is about 100-200 m thick and 200-300 km wide. It is centred approximately on the equator, and its core lies just beneath the base of the ...
