geopotentialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

geopotential (複数形 geopotentials)

1. (meteorology) The work that must be done at a given altitude in raising a unit mass from sea level to that altitude against the earth's gravitational field.
   • 2004, Zhu Xun, ‎Li Xiaofan, & ‎Cai Ming, Observation, Theory And Modeling Of Atmospheric Variability, ISBN 9814483559, page 13:

     It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (または the ageostrophic pressure in z-coordinate) has no impact on the evolution of the vorticity of a quasi-geostrophic disturbance and yet it affects the perturbation kinetic energetics (not globally but locally).

参考

• geostrophic wind
• geostrophic wind level
• gradient wind