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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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Waves And Storms in the North Atlantic (WASA)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A project whose goal is to verify or falsify the hypothesis of a worsening storm and wave climate in the Northeast Atlantic and its adjacent seas in the 20th century. The main conclusion of the ...
Ocean Tomography Operational Package and utilisation Support (OCTOPUS)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A project whose goals are: to turn tomography into a routine, affordable, and operational tool for ocean research, monitoring and forecasting for even non–specialist users; to increase the ...
Paleo Environment and Climate History of the Russian Arctic (PECHORA)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A project whose main purpose is to increase the understanding of climate changes and the impact these changes have on the environment in arctic Russian during the last interglacial–glacial cycle. The ...
Processes in Regions of Fresh Water Influence (PROFILE)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A project whose overall aim is to develop process understanding and tested numerical models for regions of freshwater influence (i.e. ROFIs). This EC MAST project studies the role of the physical ...
Water mass characteristics
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A property value or, more often, range of property values by which a water mass can be identified and tracked through the ocean. The most commonly used are temperature, potential temperature, ...
Pre-Operational modelling in the Seas of Europe (PROMISE)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A project whose primary objective is to optimise the application of existing dynamical models of the North Sea such that the rates and scales of sediment exchange between the coast and the nearshore ...
Turnover time
Earth science; Physical oceanography
A time scale defined as the ratio of the mass of a reservoir to the rate of its removal from that reservoir. In the context of the climate this can be seen as the total amount of carbon dioxide in ...
