This lecture
note explains the following topics: Ocean Circulation and Current Carbon Cycle,
Major Ions of Seawater, Trace Elements in Seawater, Controls on the Composition
of Seawater, Stable Isotopes, Radioactive Isotopes and Decay, Gases and Gas
Exchange, Tracers for Gas Exchange, Ocean Carbonate Chemistry: Reactions, Ocean
Carbonate Chemistry: Ocean Distributions, Principles of Mass Balance - Box
Models, Primary Production - Nutrient Stoichiometry, Biological Production -
Chemical Tracers, Iron Distributions and Controls, Redox Reactions, Respiration
and Oxygen
These notes represent the topic
content for physical oceanography. Topics covered includes: The place of
physical oceanography in science, tools and prerequisites: projections and ocean
topography, Objects of study in Physical Oceanography, Properties of seawater,
The Global Oceanic Heat Budget, Distribution of temperature and salinity with
depth; the density stratification , Aspects of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,
Thermohaline processes; water mass formation; the seasonal thermocline, The
ocean and climate, Waves, Long Wave, Estuaries, Oceanographic instrumentation.
This lecture note provides
an introduction to chemical oceanography. It describes reservoir models and
residence time, major ion composition of seawater, inputs to and outputs from
the ocean via rivers, the atmosphere, and the sea floor.
Author(s): Dr. Dierdre Toole, Dr. Karen Casciotti,
Dr. Meg Tivey, Dr. Scott Doney and Dr. William Martin