English Dictionary

geopotential

名詞

(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.

日本語の意味

地球の重力場に逆らい、海面からある高度まで単位質量を持ち上げるために必要な仕事（エネルギー）の量

The meteorologist examined the geopotential contours on the map to predict the onset of the storm.

気象学者は、地図上の各高度で単位質量を海面からその高度まで地球の重力に逆らって持ち上げるのに必要な仕事の等値線を調べて、嵐の発生を予測した。

意味（1）

(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.

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).

geopotentials （ plural ）