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constant geopotential or
isosurfaces of the
geopotential are
called equigeopotential surfaces (sometimes
abbreviated as geop), also
known as geopotential...
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external forcings (such as wind),
water level tends to
conform to an
equigeopotential surface.
Water level (device),
device utilizing the
surface of liquid...
-
horizontal datum for the chart. However, it is not
necessarily an
equigeopotential (a
water "level surface"): the
chart datum is
tilted across smaller...
- position: depth, height, altitude, elevation, etc.
Points lying on an
equigeopotential surface are said to be on the same
vertical level, as in a
water level...
- are
referenced to Earth's mean sea level,
taking its best-****ing
equigeopotential as a
reference surface or
vertical datum. In SI units, a geopotential...
- as a
specific crater for the
reference meridian or the best-****ing
equigeopotential as zero-level surface. The
longitude systems of most of
those bodies...
-
perpendicular and
bubble levels are
parallel to the geoid.
Being an
equigeopotential means the
geoid corresponds to the free
surface of
water at rest (if...
- Earth's rotation), the
corresponding geopotential isosurface (the
equigeopotential) that best fits mean sea
level is
called the geoid.
Potential flow...
-
proportional to the geopotential, it
remains constant over a
given equigeopotential surface. Therefore,
dynamic height is the most
appropriate height measure...
- (unit: m2 s−2) and not metric. The
reference surface is the geoid, an
equigeopotential surface approximating the mean sea
level as
described above. For normal...
