Physical Oceanography
Second Semester Course at the Graduate Program in Environmental Physics
Instructors:
- S. Sofianos (Department of Physics) Building PHYS-5 Office (phone#: 6932)
- V. Vervatis (Department of Physics) Building PHYS-5 Room A-12 (phone#: 6839)
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Lecture notes can be found in theSyllabuspage
| Date | Time | Room |
| Monday | 12:00 - 13:30 | ROOM A15 |
| Thursday | 13:30-15:00 | ROOM A15 |
Syllabus
Homework 1
Homework 2
Homework 3
Semester Project
Data and Programs
Grades
Recommended Textbooks:
- S. Pond and G. L. Pickard, 1995, Introductory Dynamical Oceanography, 2nd edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, ISBN 0-7506-2496-5.
- J. A. Knauss, 1997, Introduction to Physical Oceanography, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-238155-9.
- R. M. Samelson, 2011, The Theory of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107001886
- A. E. Gill, 1982, Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-283522-0.
- G. K. Vallis, 2006, Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 10-521-84969-1.
- B. Cushman-Roisin, B., 1994, Introduction to GeophysicalFluid Dynamics,Prentice Hall, ISBN 0133533019.
- B. A. Warren and C. Wunsch (eds.), 1981, Evolution of Physical Oceanography, MIT Press, ISBM 0-26-223104-2, available @ MIT OpenCourseWare