Meaning of geopotential | Babel Free

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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.

Examples

“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).”

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