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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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Radiance
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The radiation energy per unit time coming from a specific direction and passing through a unit area perpendicular to the direction.
Emittance
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The rate at which radiation is emitted from a unit area.
Sound Channel Axis Velocity Experiment (SCAVE)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Where SOFAR explosive charges were fired at the depth of the sound axis off Antigua and the resulting signals received and processed at Eleuthera and Bermuda. In this experiment, taking place in ...
Climate
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Traditionally defined in terms of the mean atmospheric conditions at the earth's surface. Peixoto and Oort (1992) offer the more technical and broader "set of averaged quantities completed with ...
Equivalent depth
Earth science; Physical oceanography
When the solution of a differential equation set (e.g. the equations of motion for a baroclinic atmosphere or ocean) is approximated using the normal mode technique, each of the independent 142 ...
Ocean Drilling programme (ODP)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Which conducts basic research into the history of the ocean basins and the overall nature of the crust beneath the ocean floor using the scientific drill ship, JOIDES resolution. This was originally ...
Saturation vapour pressure
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Usually measured with respect to water, this is the maximum water vapour pressure that can occur when the water vapour is in contact with a free water surface at a particular temperature. It is the ...
