PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY 11:628:451, 16:712:501
Fall 2000
Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences

INSTRUCTORS:
    Jim Miller, IMCS 111D, 932-6555 x545, miller@imcs.rutgers.edu
    Scott Glenn, IMCS 111C, 932-6555 x544, glenn@imcs.rutgers.edu
    Dale Haidvogel, IMCS 214D, 932-6555 x256, dale@ahab.rutgers.edu
    TA- Hank Statscewich, Blake Hall, 932-3299, stats@imcs.rutgers.edu

  I.  Physical and chemical properties of seawater
      A.  Temperature, salinity and density
      B.  Equation of state
      C.  Stability
      D.  Surface heat flux
      E.  Sea ice

 II.  Conservation equations
      A.  Global balances of heat, water, and salt
      B.  The continuity equation
      C.  Diffusion

III.  Equations of motion
      A.  Local and field acceleration
      B.  Pressure gradient
      C.  Coriolis force
      D.  Gravity
      E.  Friction

 IV.  Effects of earth's rotation
      A.  Inertial motion
      B.  Geostrophic flow
      C.  Margule's equation
      D.  Barotropic and baroclinic fluids
      E.  Ekman motion

  V.  Ocean circulation
      A.  North Atlantic gyre
      B.  Gulf Stream and California Current systems
      C.  Equatorial currents
      D.  El Nino/Southern Oscillation
      E.  Decadal oscillations/Impacts on biological processes
      F.  Thermohaline circulation
      G.  Water masses

 VI.  Coastal processes
      A.  Surface gravity waves
      B.  Tides
      C.  Estuarine circulation
      D.  Semienclosed Seas (Arctic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea)
 

Textbook: Introduction to Physical Oceanography, Second Edition
          John Knauss
 
 

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