Batavia University - Environmental Studies Field Degree Programs&Literature Programs
Physical Oceanography
An Introduction to Physical Oceanography Version 2 September 2000 Contents: How to use these notes. Introduction 1: An opening lecture. Introduction 2: Qualitative description and quantitative science. Lecture 1: Introduction, projections, ocean topography. Lecture 2: Objects of study in physical oceanography, the geographical framework. Lecture 3: Properties of seawater, the concept of salinity. Lecture 4: The global oceanic heat and mass (freshwater) budgets. * Lecture 5: Depth distribution of temperature, salinity and nutrients; stratification. Lecture 6: Aspects of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. * Lecture 7: Thermohaline processes, water masses. * Lecture 8: The ocean and climate. * Lecture 9: Wave classification, dispersion, wind waves. * Lecture 10: Long waves: tsunamis, seiches, internal waves. * Lecture 11: Long waves: tides. * Lecture12: Estuaries. * Lecture13: Oceanographic instrumentation. * Exercises in Physical Oceanography Shelf and Coastal Oceanography Regional Oceanography Oceanographic utilities. This web site is quality controlled through peer review. Lectures marked * have been evaluated by reviewers. © 1996 - 2000 M. Tomczak
Batavia University Indra Valley Inn Bukit Lawang, North Sumatra, Indonesia Near the Entrance to Gunung Leuser National Park and Bohorok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center Central Administrative Office in Harapan Baru, West Bekasi, Indonesia We are affiliated with the Global Institute For more information please contact us at info@bataviauniversity.indo.cc or +62-(61) 777 98115