Geopotential

Quick meaning: Geopotential is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

Example Sentences

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).

Word Forms

• geopotentials

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include potential, gravity, hydropotential, potentiality, zetapotential, gravimeter.

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