MASC530 INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
| Course Code: | 9500530 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Graduate School of Marine Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. BETTİNA ANDREA FACH SALİHOĞLU |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Completing this course, the student will learn:
*What is physical oceanography, history
*Atmosphere and Ocean (Introductory)
*What properties we observe in the ocean and how
*Seawater property distribution in the World Ocean
*Equation of state, stability and stratification
*Air-sea heat transfer and seasonality
*Ocean heat balance & the seasonal thermocline
*Freshwater and salt balances
*Water masses and the thermohaline circulation (THC)
Course Content
Physical property fields, currents, waves and tides, general circulation of the oceans, T-S analysis, ocean-atmosphere interaction, oceanographic processes in the Turkish Seas.
Course Learning Outcomes
Student, who satisfactorily complete this course will:
* Have a general understaning of physical oceanography and its history
*Learn about physical properties of the ocean and how they are observed
*Be able to identify and distinguish baroclinic and barotropic flows; major ocean currents and circulation,
*Be able to understand geostrophys and be able to formulate equations of motion (momentum and continuity in the ocean)
* Have knowledge about variability (and its scales )in the ocean and teleconnection patterns