SIO 210: Syllabus

Reading and the lectures. Each lecture is built around a suite of related ideas. The discussion in lecture is summary and not mathematical, the readings are coordinated with the lectures and are very specific because they are intended to provide deeper coverage of some of the lecture material. The intellectual challenge of this half of the class is to organize each lecture and its reading into a coherent whole. Most of the readings are bound in manilla folders and shelved in the reserve reading room of the SIO library. If you make a copy of any reading, please carefully restaple the pages of the reserve copy back together. The lectures will be Tuesday/Thrusday; the Monday afternoon meeting will supplement the lectures by, for example, dealing with lecture material at a more mathematical level.

During the first half of the course, an ongoing exercise will be to observe the winds and circulation along the California coast as documented on the web at http://stc@calcoos.org.

Textbooks: The SIO Aquarium bookstore has a supply of the following books which are useful for the descriptive large-scale oceanography part of the course (second half). They are also on reserve.