ATOC 5051, Spring 2010 — Notes & Calendar

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 reading.

ATOC 5051: Intro. to Physical Oceanography

Paper #2: Inside Joke

In this assignment you will estimate a temperature, salt, or volume budget. That is, you will take a dataset and try to figure out how to balance the incoming and outgoing sources into a region or into a volume.
You may want to use the ECCO data assimilating datasets, available here.
Feel free to use the Matlab references, and refer to simil\ ar projects from last year, It's Getting Hot in Here.