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Physical oceanography

the natural frequency at which a displaced parcel oscillates vertically in a stably stratified fluid, a standard measure of stratification strength.

In physical oceanography, Brunt-Väisälä frequency refers to the natural frequency at which a displaced parcel oscillates vertically in a stably stratified fluid, a standard measure of stratification strength. This meaning comes from Brunt (1927) in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.[1]

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Brunt, D. (1927). The period of simple vertical oscillations in the atmosphere. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 53(221), 30-32. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.49705322103

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