Dynamics of Oceans

ATOC 5061

Understanding environmental problems; making effective use of technical information; applicable to general environmental problems; applicable to air quality issues; applicable to water resource issues; applicable to natural hazards.


Theory of the large scale wind-driven and thermohaline circulations in the oceans. Models of boundary currents, western intensification, ventilation, equatorial surface and undercurrents, ocean waves, and eddies. PAOS graduate core course.