MAR 555: Inroduction to Physical Oceanography:
General Info:
Syllabus and Class Schedule
Lectures and SupplementaryMaterials
Date | # | Topic | Suppl | Homework | Lecturer | Archives |
9/2 | Introduction | All | - | |||
9/4 | L1 | Global Heat budget | Notes 1
Palle_etal_2004 Palle_etal_2006 albedo_movie |
HW1 | Chen | A1 |
9/8 | L2 | Oceanic Heat Budget | HW2 | Chen | - | |
9/9 | L3 | Coriolis | HW3 | Chen | - | |
9/11 | L4 | Upper Ocean circulation | HW4 | Chen | - | |
9/15 | L5 | Gulf Stream Rings | HW5 | Chen | - | |
9/16 | R | Class Exercise/Homework | Lect 1-5 | Cowles | R1 | |
9/18 | L6 | Math and Physics Primer | In PPT | Goodman | ||
9/22 | L7 | North Atlantic Subpolar | arctic_ice_movie | HW | Chen | L7 |
9/23 | L8 | Equatorial Circulation | Chen | |||
9/25 | L9 | Pacific Ocean Circulation | Chen | |||
9/29 | L10 | Antarctic Circumpolar | movie | Chen | ||
9/30 | L11 | Water Masses | Chen | |||
10/2 | R2 | Class Exercise/Homework | Cowles | R2 | ||
10/6 | L12 | Water Masses II | weddell_movie | Chen | ||
10/7 | L13 | Deep Circulation | Chen | |||
10/9 | E1_Rev | Review: Lectures 1-13 | Cowles | EX1Rev | ||
10/13 | COLUMBUS DAY | |||||
10/14 | EXAM | PRELIM I | CLOSED BOOK | |||
10/16 | L14 | Governing Equations | IPO-7 | In PPT | Goodman | Lec14 |
10/20 | L15 | Buoyancy and Vorticity | skater_movie | In PPT | Goodman | |
10/21 | L16 | Friction and Turbulence: I | squiggles | In PPT | Goodman | Lec16 |
10/23 | L17 | Friction and Turbulence: II | In PPT | Goodman | ||
10/27 | L18 | Geostrophy | HWSolution: Lec14-18 | Goodman | ||
10/28 | Class Exercise/Homework | In PPT | Goodman | |||
10/30 | L19 | Tides | global tides movie | Chen | ||
11/3 | L20 | Coastal Tides | movie2, movie2 , movie3, movie4, movie5 | Chen | ||
11/4 | L21 | Waves | peahi | Cowles | A21 | |
11/6 | L22 | Internal Waves | Cowles | |||
11/10 | L23 | Rossby/Kelvin Waves | Cowles | A23 | ||
11/11 | VETERANS DAY | |||||
11/13 | R | Class Exercise/Homework | Cowles | Rev19-23 | ||
11/17 | R | Prelim Prep | In PPT | Goodman/Cowles | ||
11/18 | EXAM | PRELIM II | OPEN BOOK | |||
11/20 | L24 | Ocean Fronts | movie_zip | Chen | ||
11/24 | L25 | Ocean Fronts II | movies_zip | Chen | ||
11/25 | L26 | Ocean Mixing | HW | Goodman | ||
11/27 | THANKSGIVING | |||||
12/1 | L27 | Ekman Dynamics | IPO-9 | HW | Goodman | |
12/2 | L28 | Atmospheric Forcing of the Upper Ocean | IPO-9 | HW | Goodman | |
12/4 | R | Class Exercise/Homework | In PPT | Goodman | ||
12/8 | L29 | Topical Lecture | TBA | |||
12/9 | L30 | Topical Lecture | TBA | |||
12/11 | R | Homework Portfolio Review | All |
Supplementary Notes
Coriolis Essay - For those
comfortable with kinematics and dynamics, a detailed essay on the Coriolis force
and dynamics in non-inertial reference frames.