SIO 210: Introduction to Physical Oceanography - OLD NOTES

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Fall 2002

Instructors: Lynne Talley, Paul Robbins, and Myrl Hendershott

Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 11:10-12:30

Location: NTV 330

Equatorial Pacific SST, courtesy of NOAA

Course Overview

Physical description of the sea; physical properties of seawater, methods and measurements, boundary processes, regional oceanography. Prerequisites: the mathematics and physics required for admission to the graduate curriculum in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, or consent of the instructor. Since math courses might have been taken many years ago for some students, please check this math concept link, and attend some of the math tutorials at the beginning of the quarter if you want a refresher.

The course url is http://gyre.ucsd.edu/sio210. The notes and figures are background for the coursework. They are evolving and informal. They may not be used for other purposes without permission. Figures from copyrighted sources include the reference.

Course requirements: two graded exams. Study questions will be provided throughout the course, but will not be graded.

Syllabus - FALL 2002 - OLD OLD

Sep 26: Course Overview: What is Physical Oceanography? [Talley]
Oct 1: Properties of Seawater [Talley]
Oct 3: Basic Equations of Motion, Mixing [Talley]
Oct 8: Fluid flow with rotation / Geostrophy [Talley]
Oct 10: Atmospheric Circulation [Talley]
Oct 15: Wind forcing and oceanic response [Talley]
Oct 17: Wind forced circulation and upper ocean water masses -- Pacific [Talley]
Oct 22: Wind forced circulation and upper ocean water masses -- Atlantic, Indian and Southern[Talley]
Oct 24: MID-TERM EXAM
Oct 29: Buoyancy Forcing and Abyssal Circulation Theories [Robbins]
Oct 31: Observations of Thermohaline Circulation - Deep Water Formation [Robbins]
Nov 5: Observations of Thermohaline Circulation - The return of Abyssal Waters[Robbins]
Nov 7: Property Transports and Budgets [Robbins]
Nov 12: Eastern Boundary Currents & Equatorial Circulation [Robbins]
Nov 14: Waves & Tides I [Hendershott]
Nov 19: Waves & Tides II [Hendershott]
Nov 21: Waves & Tides III [Hendershott]
Nov 26: Observational Tools / Aquarium Field Trip Meet at Aquarium, East Classroom [Talley & Robbins]
Nov 28: Thanksgiving
Dec 3: ENSO & Monsoons [Robbins]
Dec 5: Decadal Variability / Oceans and Climate [Robbins]
Dec 10: Final Exam,[Final Exam (pdf)],[ Exam Key (pdf) ], Average grade on final: 82.
You may pick up your final at Paul's office (Nierenberg 448) or send me e-mail (probbins@ucsd.edu) with your campus mailing address and I will return it to you via mail

Relevant Texts

On reserve at library

Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction. by George Pickard and William Emery
Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics. by Adrian Gill
Regional Oceanography: An Introduction. by Matthias Tomczak and Stuart Godfrey. (Link is to free download of pdf. Text is out of print.)
An Introduction to Physical Oceanography by William von Arx.
Evolution of Physical Oceanography edited by Bruce Warren and Carl Wunsch

Online texts, not on reserve

Introduction to Physical Oceanography. by Robert Stewart. This is an online text only. The pdf version is up-to-date. The html version has errors (information from R. Stewart).
Descriptive Physical Oceanography, draft of new edition. by William Emery, Lynne Talley and George Pickard. This is a draft of a book that will be copyrighted and published. Please do not use material for any purposes other than this class. As of October 1, 2002: Chapters 1, 3 only.

Online Resources

Electronic Reserves at the SIO library. If you want to connect to this from outside UCSD, you will first need to go to this site: http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/proxy.html and follow the directions to obtain a link.
Lynne Talley. Online notes for SIO 210 from previous years. The Fall 2002 lecture schedule is reorganized, but Talley's lectures will draw on these notes.
An online bibliography
Properties of seawater - matlab, fortran, c subroutines

Contact Information

Lynne Talley 534-6610 Home Page ltalley@ucsd.edu

Paul Robbins 534-6366 Home Page probbins@ucsd.edu

Last modified: Mon Dec 16 14:49:40 2002