geopotential

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (or 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).

词形变化

geopotentials plural

词源

Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English potential
English geopotential
From geo- + potential.
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