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

Large Aggregate Profiling System (LAPS)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A system for counting the number and size distribution of particles in sea water ranging from 250 microns to several millimetres in size. LAPS consists of a video camera synchronised with a strobe ...

Equatorial Pacific Information Collection (EPIC)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A system for management, display, and analysis of oceanographic in-situ data. This was developed at the NOAA PMEL to manage the large numbers of hydrographic and time series oceanographic in-situ ...

Water mass analysis

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A technique introduced by Jacobsen (1927) as a graphical method for determining mixing coefficients in a T–S diagram. It was extended by W¨ust in 1935 who developed his core layer method. This was ...

World Data centre (WDC)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A system of facilities established within the framework of the IOC IODE programme to receive oceanographic data and inventories from NODCs, RNODCs, marine science organizations, and individual ...

Otto Pettersson

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A Swedish chemist and physical oceanographer who organised many of the earliest cooperative cruises in Scandanavian waters and promoted the idea of what would become the ICES.