ATOC5051, Spring 2010

Intro to Physical Oceanography, or Notions for the Motions of the Oceans

Reading Assignment 2: Weeks 3-4

This reading assignment introduces the equations of conservation and motion for the ocean. Week 3

  1. Geoff Vallis's Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Chapter 1, 2.1-2.4, 2.7.
  2. Emery, Talley, and Pickard's Descriptive Physical Oceanography, 7th ed. Chapter 5.
  3. Cushman-Roisin and Becker's Introduction to GFD Chapters 1.1-1.10, 3.1-3.8.
  4. Eulerian Lagrangian Description Movie (Needs Realplayer).

Week 4
  1. Geoff Vallis's Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Chapters 2.1-2.4, 2.7.
  2. Emery, Talley, and Pickard's Descriptive Physical Oceanography, 7th ed. Chapter 5.
  3. Cushman-Roisin and Becker's Introduction to GFD Chapters 2.1-2.5, 4.1-4.6.
  4. Eulerian Lagrangian Description Movie (Needs Realplayer).

The reading quiz is due by class time. It can be accessed through CULearn.

Optional additional reading may be useful for the assignment:

  1. Tomczak and Godfrey's Regional Oceanography: An Introduction, Chapter 1: What drives the ocean currents?
  2. Chapters 3, 5, 6, and 7 of Robert H. Stewart's Introduction to Physical Oceanography: Physical Setting; Ocean Heat Budget; T, S & Density; and Equations of Motion.
  3. Cushman-Roisin and Becker's Introduction to GFD Appendix A: Reviewing the derivation of fluid continuum equations.
  4. Joe Pedlosky's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Chapters 1, 2: an alternative to Vallis' derivations.
  5. Adrian Gill's Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, Chapter 1, 2, and 3: Global budgets and yet another derivation of equations.