ATOC 5051, Spring 2010

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.

Web Resources and Texts

Course Specific

1. Paper writing guidelines, and Orwell's Politics and the English Language
2. Peer reviewing guidelines.
3. Reading assignment guidelines.
4. Matlab guidelines.
5. ECCO guidelines.
6. AGU/GRL Article Length Tool
   This is an automated article length calculator for AGU. All assignments for this class must pass the GRL length calculation.

Textbooks

1. Cushman-Roisin and Beckers's Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
   A nice, basic GFD book.
2. Robert H. Stewart's Introduction to Physical Oceanography
   Web-distributed basic but comprehensive textbook.
3. Tomczak and Godfrey's Regional Oceanography: An Introduction
   Tomczak and Godfrey's nice descriptive textbook.
4. Tchernia's Descriptive Regional Oceanography.
   An equation-free descriptive text.
5. Chapman and Malanotte-Rizzoli's Notes on Henderschott's Wave Motions in the Ocean
   A readable and short ocean wave text.

Chapters

1. Talley, Emery, and Pickard's Descriptive Physical Oceanography
   Chapters 5, 6, 7.
2. Adrian Gill's Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics
   Chapters 1, 2, 3.
3. Cushman-Roisin's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
   Chapters 5, 8, 12.
4. Pijush Kundu's Fluid Mechanics
   Chapter 7.
5. Joe Pedlosky's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
   Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4.
6. Joe Pedlosky's Ocean Circulation Theory
   Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4.
7. Sverdrup, Johnson, and Fleming's The Ocean
   Chapter 10.
8. Siedler, Church & Gould's WOCE Volume,
   The Ocean: Circulation and Climate
   Chapters 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.
9. Wunsch's The Ocean Inverse Problem
   Chapter 2.
10. IPCC AR4, 2007: Synthesis Summary, Physical Science Summary, and Chp5: Oceanic Climate Change

The Competition

1. Ferrari and Joyce's MIT 12.808: Intro to Physical Oceanography
   Ferrari and Joyce's nice website for a similar class to ATOC5051.
2. Lynne Talley and Myrl Henderschott's SIO 210: Intro to Physical Oceanography
   A similar class to ATOC5051 at Scripps from Fall, 2008.
3. Henderschott, Winant, Send, & MacKinnon SIO 210: Intro to Physical Oceanography
   A similar class to ATOC5051 at Scripps from Fall, 2009.
4. Lisa Beal's MPO 503 at RSMAS

Additional Fun Reading

Nonfiction

1. Cook, The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World, Vol. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.
2. Maury, 1860: The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology
3. Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
4. Darwin, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
5. Sverdrup, New Land: Four Years in the Arctic Region
6. Nansen, Farthest North, Vol 1 and Vol 2.
7. M'Clintock, The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas
8. Bowditch, The American Practical Navigator
9. Philander, Our Affair with El Nino
10. Emanuel, Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes

Fiction

1. Dana, Two Years Before the Mast
2. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
3. Homer, The Odyssey
4. London, The Sea Wolf
5. Melville, Moby Dick
6. Stevenson, Treasure Island
7. Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

GFD Lab

1. Hart and Kittelman GFD Lab
2. John Marshall's (MIT) GFD Lab
3. National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films
4. Ruddick & Hebery Internal Wave Lab Demos
5. Alistair Fraser's Bad Coriolis, with related Southern Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere movies... Snopes version
   . Here's how to do it right. (very, very carefully! don't just flush)

Data

1. The Dataserver for Class Data at Fox-Kemper.com/data
2. A Discussion Board with lots of links to datasets.
3. Some NASA Data.
4. National Virtual Ocean Data System (NVODS)
5. National Oceanographic Data Service
6. Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (USGODAE)
7. NOAA Physical Sciences Division (PSD)
8. International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (iCOADS)
9. Southampton NOCS Flux Datasets (Winds, Heat Fluxes, etc.)
10. Ocean Watch Live Access Server: easy satellite data access.
11. PO.DAAC Home: another easy satellite data access.
12. Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO)
13. International Research Institute for Climate and Society/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (IRI/LDEO)
14. NOAA National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS)
15. EPIC
16. World Ocean Circulation Experiment
17. ARGO array data
18. ARGO Live Access data server (use to map ARGO Data)
19. ARGO data browser (use for individual float measurements)
20. ODV-ready Datasets
21. Java Ocean Atlas
22. AVISO SSH Datasets
23. SCOW Wind Climatology

ECCO Data Assimilating Models

1. ECCO
2. ECCO2

Other Models

1. PCMDI IPCC AR4 runs
2. Some simple matlab programs I wrote

Software

Useful websites for software

1. Matlab
   • Installing Matlab for Research at CU
   • Matlab Sea-Mat: Matlab Oceanography Tools
   • netcdf in Matlab (netcdf toolbox)
   • Matlab OPeNDAP Ocean Toolbox
2. IDL
• IDL at CU.
• idl tips on opening netcdf files.
3. Ocean Data View
• ODV Install.
• ODV Ready-to-use Data
4. LaTeX
• Tug.org, where to download LaTeX
• A LaTeX template for this class.
• A LaTeX HowTo for MikTeX with the template above.
5. ncBrowse, a java netcdf browser
6. ncview, a graphical netcdf file browser.
7. A tool for producing pdf output on PCs/Windows

Websites

1. To What Degree? NSF Climate Change Report
2. UN Ocean Atlas
3. NOAA Interactive Global Bathymmetry
4. LDEO Deep-Sea Sample Repository
5. Cleon Teunissen's Rotation Physics
6. GISS Temperature Trends
7. IPCC Home Site
8. NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center
9. IRI ENSO Page
10. NOAA/PMEL ENSO Page
11. NOAA Tsunami Page
12. MBARI Seafood Watch

CU Specific Guidelines

1. Disability Accomodations
2. Religious Observance
3. Classroom Behavior, *Note* Prof. Fox-Kemper regards inappropriate cellphone and laptop use as disruptive behavior.
4. Student Code
5. Discrimination & Harrassment
6. Honor Code: here and here.