This note introduces students to
oceanographic processes active at the Earth's surface and their relationship to
other components of the Earth's overall environment including climate
variability and Global Change issues. Topics covered includes: Structure of the
Earth, The Earth's Ocean Basins, Plate Tectonics, The Earth's Atmosphere and
Heat Budget, Ocean Waves and Tides, Surface Ocean Circulation, he Nature and
Properties of Water, Variability of Water in the World's Oceans, Deep Ocean
Circulation, Weathering and Erosion, Marine Sedimentation, Coastal Environments
and Beach Processes, Nutrients and Dissolved Gases in the World's Oceans,
Systematics of Marine Biology, Marine Ecology - Trophic Levels and Food Webs,
Marine Ecosystems, Coral Reef Ecosystems, Paleoclimate/Paleoceanography,
Managing the Ocean Ocean Resources.
This note introduces students to
oceanographic processes active at the Earth's surface and their relationship to
other components of the Earth's overall environment including climate
variability and Global Change issues. Topics covered includes: Structure of the
Earth, The Earth's Ocean Basins, Plate Tectonics, The Earth's Atmosphere and
Heat Budget, Ocean Waves and Tides, Surface Ocean Circulation, he Nature and
Properties of Water, Variability of Water in the World's Oceans, Deep Ocean
Circulation, Weathering and Erosion, Marine Sedimentation, Coastal Environments
and Beach Processes, Nutrients and Dissolved Gases in the World's Oceans,
Systematics of Marine Biology, Marine Ecology - Trophic Levels and Food Webs,
Marine Ecosystems, Coral Reef Ecosystems, Paleoclimate/Paleoceanography,
Managing the Ocean Ocean Resources.
This note explains
the following topics: Applications of the laws of physics to the study of the
properties and circulation of the worlds oceans, Geographical description of the
oceans, physical properties of sea water, derivation of the equations of motion
for steady ocean circulation on a rotating planet, Ekman layer, Stommel and Munk
boundary layers, and the Sverdrup Balance, abyssal circulation, thermohaline
circulation, instrumentation and observation.
This note covers the following topics: rotation , earths gravity field and
sea level , ekman layers friction and geostrophic flow , winddriven circulation
stommels gyre and sverdrups balance , stress in the ocean , observations of the
gulf stream in the n atlantic , global hydrographic climatology pdf, equatorial
twists to midlatitude dynamics , the large scale thermohaline circulation some
thermodynamics , the thermohaline circulation , another wrinkle on observations
of the abyssal ocean geothermal heating and hydrothermal vents , tidal forces ,
introduction to waves and time dependent motion and internal waves