Course Notes
Course Notes¶
The following notes—mostly written by Eric Firing—form the backbone of the OCN620 course. The notes do not correspond exactly to lectures, and in some cases go beyond what is covered in class, but most lectures at least partially draw from this content. The quality is admittedly uneven, and there are substantial gaps, but we try to make improvements and additions each year. Much remains to be done …
- Introduction
- Radiation balance
- Air-sea fluxes
- Winds and surface currents
- Vector Calculus
- Conservation laws
- Non-radiative fluxes
- Statics
- Effects of rotation
- Geostrophic balance
- Ekman layers
- Vorticity
- Sverdrup balance
- Western boundary currents
- Mid-latitude gyres: Observations vs. theory
- Water-mass formation
- Abyssal circulation
- Dynamics
- Surface waves: Part 2
- Surface waves: Part 2
- Internal waves
- Kelvin waves
- Rossby waves
- Equatorial circulation
- Velocity measurements
- Sampling ocean variables