ATOC 5051, Fall 2008 — Grist & Josey datasets

ATOC 5051: Introduction to Physical Oceanography

Or, Notions for the Motions of the Oceans. This is a core course for graduate students covering the basic tools needed for oceanography. Observational, dynamical, numerical, and descriptive methods are discussed and used to get a sense of the historical and contemporary understanding of the motions of the oceans.

You can access the syllabus, proceedings, class notes, and class files.

You can download the Grist & Josey datasets of surface forcing here. This will be in netCDF files, which you can open in ODV with the directions in this directory. We probably want to use the 'adjusted' climatology, but you could also use the 'original' or compare the two. The 'original' has more variables, many of which didn't need 'adjustment'.