The transition frequency is a function of ocean depth; it varies slowly near 3 mHz for typical depth values and drops sharply to zero only for extreme depth values.
In the case of an embryo impact onto a pre-existing magma ocean, the volume of the calculated melt pool that extends below the base of the magma ocean into a previously solid mantle is added to the volume of the magma ocean to calculate a new magma ocean depth.
In October 1997, they deployed a "rumbleometer," an instrument that precisely measures ocean depth, current, and temperature near the volcano.
In summary, the results here support idealized ocean conductivity assumptions as an approximation (uniform conductivity multiplied by realistic ocean depth gives a reasonable conductance distribution, and one may even obtain a reasonable depth-averaged conductivity assuming a common conductivity depth profile appropriately representing the global averaged behavior).
What barrier islands have in common is a large supply of sand subject to the action of tides and waves and a gentle slope of ocean depth.
The geographic pole, located at a point where the ocean depth is about 13,400 feet (4,080 metres) deep and covered with drifting pack ice, experiences six months of complete sunlight and six months of total darkness each year.
The density values were then used to formulate an empirical model of the global seawater density distribution defined as a function of the ocean depth to account for density variations due to pressure.
What you're seeing is a mass of hot water (those numbers on the isobars are anomalously warm temperatures in degrees Celsius) stretching across the Pacific Ocean, viewed as a cross section of ocean depth - the top represents the ocean surface.
If we integrate horizontal velocity over the ocean depth at an appropriate "initial" time, we could simply use that horizontally variable, depth-averaged velocity profile as an initial condition for a shallow water simulation.
Otherwise, he says, the standard models will probably persist because "they still do a reasonable job in predicting ocean depth, including the flattening".
"We imagine that between the ice and the ice core there is an ocean of depth and this is somehow connected to the surface reservoir," he said.
