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

Notes 2
Beardsley_etal_2003
Fairall_etal_1996

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.