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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National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A protected areas network of federal, state and local partnerships to enhance informed management and scientific understanding of the U.S. estuarine and coastal habitats. It was created with the 1972 ...

Electronically Scanned Thinned Array Radiometer (ESTAR)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A proposed remote sensing technique for monitoring the large scale distribution of surface salinity. It depends on the influence of salinity on microwave emissions, strongest at 1.4 GHz. Since ...

Thermograph

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A recording thermometer which measures a continuous trace of temperature called a thermogram. The classical version of this featured a bi-metallic strip attached to a lever holding a pen. As the ...

Stochastic process

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A reasonably strict definition of this (also called a random process) is a family of random variables indexed by t, where t belongs to some index set T (which may denote time, space, or whatever else ...

PanAmerican Climate Studies (PACS)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A proposed programme in the 1995-2004 time frame directed toward the goal of improving the skill of operational seasonal-to-interannual climate prediction (with emphasis on precipitation) over the ...

Richardson number

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A ratio of buoyancy to inertial forces which measures the stability of a fluid layer. There are several different definitions of this for various situations,including the overall, gradient, and flux ...