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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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Systematic errors
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Stable errors in model simulations that result from model deficiencies in the component (e.g ocean and atmosphere) models alone, additive errors from the component models after they are coupled, or ...
EXpendable Conductivity (XCTD)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Temperature and Depth instrument. The accuracy of XCTD probes is 0.02° C in temperature and 0.03 psu in salinity, and they are rated to about 1000 m depth. They typically cost 20 times more than an ...
Statistically robust
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Statistical results which are relatively insensitive to the presence of a moderate amount of bad data or to inadequacies in the statistical model being used, and that react gradually rather than ...
Uncentered statistics
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Statistics that retain information on the spatially-averaged changes in the fields being compared, i.e. the spatial-mean components are not subtracted so as to compare only the anomalies about the ...
Seamount
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The official IHO definition for this undersea feature name is "a discrete (or group of) large isolated elevation(s), greater than 1000m in relief above the sea floor, characteristically of conical ...
Archipelagic plain
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The official IHO definition for this undersea feature name is "a gentle slope with a generally smooth surface of the sea floor, characteristically found around groups of islands or seamounts."
Promontory
Earth science; Physical oceanography
The official IHO definition for this undersea feature name is "a major spur–like protrusion of the continental slope extending to the deep seafloor; characteristically, the crest deepens seaward."
