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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Harbour wave

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A type of seiche found in harbors. The Japanese word "tsunami" means "harbor wave" but is a misnomer for what is really a seismic sea wave, more popularly (and even more incorrectly) known as a tidal ...

Slush

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A type of sea ice defined by the WMO as: Snow which is saturated and mixed with water on land or ice surfaces, or as a viscous floating mass in water after heavy snowfall.

Grey–white ice

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A type of sea ice defined by the WMO as: Young ice 15-30 cm thick. Under pressure more likely to ridge than to raft.

North Atlantic subtropical mode water

Earth science; Physical oceanography

A type of Subtropical Mode Water that forms in the North Atlantic.

Northeastern Atlantic Dynamics Study (NEADS)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

An array of instrumentation moorings anchored in the northeastern Atlantic basin in the early 1980s. This was a collaboration between West Germany, England and France and complementary to the ...

Formation Experiment (FORMEX)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

An Antarctic CRC project to define the mechanisms underlying the formation of sea ice and its role on the formation of Antarctic Surface Waters and air–sea interaction. Specific goals including ...

Capacitance matrix method

Earth science; Physical oceanography

An algorithm for imposing additional conditions on the solution of a boundary value elliptic problem at specified grid points in the interior of the computational domain. It effectively determines a ...