Physical Oceanography

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Overview

Subject code

MARS

Course Number

6080

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Description

This course provides students with an in-depth survey of marine systems from a physical perspective. Topics include physical and thermodynamic properties of seawater; temperature, salinity and density distributions, ocean heat budget, ocean effect on climate, geostrophic flow, Ekman balance, potentional vorticity and Sverdrup balance, thermohaline circulation, waves, and tides.

Credits

Min

3

Min

3

Min

3

Requisites