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This concept has been deprecated.

Preferred term

sea_floor_depth  

Definition

  • The geoid is a surface of constant geopotential with which mean sea level would coincide if the ocean were at rest. (The volume enclosed between the geoid and the sea floor equals the mean volume of water in the ocean.) In an ocean GCM the geoid is the surface of zero depth, or the rigid lid if the model uses that approximation.

Note

  • deprecated

URI

https://vocab.met.no/CFSTDN/sea_floor_depth

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