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

Ground truth data

Earth science; Physical oceanography

Geophysical parameter data, measured or collected by means other than by the instrument itself, used as correlative or calibration data for that instrument data, including data taken on the ground or ...

North East Atlantic (NEAT GIN)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

Greenland–Iceland–Norwegian Sea Experiment, an experiment which took place during Sept.–Oct. 1989 at the Norwegian shelf edge near 68° N and comprised seven moorings, five in a closely spaced ...

Subtropics

Earth science; Physical oceanography

Generally the part of the Earth's surface between the tropics and the temperate regions, or between about 40° N and S.

Hans Pettersson

Earth science; Physical oceanography

Head of the Swedish Deep Sea Expedition and son of Otto Pettersson.

Operational oceanography

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The activity of routinely making, disseminating, and interpreting measurements of the seas and oceans so as to provide continuous forecasts of the future condition of the sea for as far ahead as ...

Findlater jet

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The atmospheric equivalent of an oceanic western boundary current. An example originates with the southwest monsoon that, fed partly from a northward extension of the easterly trade winds over the ...

Hans Ertel

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The "potential vorticity" guy. Ertel's fundamental work in theoretical meteorology and the application of fluid dynamics to meteorological and geophysical problems, culminating in his general vortex ...