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ATOC 5051, Fall 2007 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 class files.

First Proceedings of ATOC 5051

Introduction to Physical Oceanography, 2007

Notions for the Motions of the Oceans, Volume 1

Issue 1: Ready to Roll

• Honaker, D.: Investigation of the Loop Current using the Reid-Mantyla Data Set and GHRSST
• Roberts, Y.: Comparison of Temperature Distribution in the Eastern and Western North Atlantic
• Van Dam, B.: Observed Temperature and Salinity Profile Differences in the Mediterranean Sea
• Wolf, E.: Oceanic Oxygen Content Variations with Depth

Issue 2: What Do You Mean Mean?

• Bateman, R.: Comparison of Global Sea-Surface Temperature Constraints: Reid & Mantyla and eWOCE
• Hamlington, B.: Comparison Between Remote and In Situ Measurements of Rate of Sea Surface Height Increase
• Honaker, D.: A Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic Ocean Properties
• Roberts, Y.: Visual and Numerical Analysis of Two Sea Surface Temperature Data Collections
• Stevenson, S.: Salinity Trends in the North Atlantic Ocean
• Van Dam, B.: Variations in North Atlantic Ocean Observations
• Wheeler, C.: Oxygen Levels in the Weddell Sea
• Wolf, E.: A Comparison of Oxygen Content in the Labrador and Weddell Seas

Issue 3: It's Getting Hot in Here

• Evan, S.: Upper Ocean Heat Budget in the North Atlantic Inferred from ECCO Ocean Data Assimilation
• Soltys, M.: Salt Budget For The Mediterranean Sea Using The Estuarine Flow Model
• Stevenson, S.: A Heat Budget Analysis of the Labrador Sea
• Walsh, H.: Salinity Budget for the Mediterranean Sea

Issue 4: Round and Round

• Honaker, D.: Ekman Layer Dynamics in the Mozambique Channel due to Cyclone Lisette
• Mather, B.: Calculation of the Ekman Divergence in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean
• McIntyre, S.: Equatorial Upwelling and Ekman Transport due to Wind Stress
• Pienciak, A.: Seasonal Variability of Coastal Upwelling: Correlations Between Sea Surface Temperature and Ekman Mass Flux
• Richards, M.: Ekman Mass Flux in the Southern Ocean
• Soltys, M.: Comparing Ekman Transports in the North Atlantic Using the ECCO server, the Grist and Josey Climatology, and the NSCAT Satellite Data
• Stevenson, S.: Sverdrup Transport Variability in the Atlantic
• Walsh, H.: Upwelling Off of the Western Coast of the United States
• Wheeler, C.: Examination of the Ekman Mass Flux in the Southern Ocean
• Wolf, E.: Climatological Mean Ekman Transport in the Northern Pacific

Issue 5: Rivers in the Sea

• Bateman, R.: The Gulf Stream: A Wind-Driven Circulation
• Evan, S.: Sverdrup transport in the North Atlantic
• Hamlington, B.: Seasonal Variation of Volume Transport of the Kuroshio Western Boundary Current
• Mather, B.: Sverdrup Transport and the East Australian Current
• McIntyre, S.: Sverdrup and Geostrophic Balance of the Kuroshio Current
• Richards, M.: The Gulf Stream Western Boundary Current and Sverdrup Transport in the Atlantic
• Wheeler, C.: Flow Conservation of the Gulf Stream Western Boundary Current

Issue 6: Geostrophy and Thermal Wind

• Hamlington, B.: Thermal Wind and Geostrophy in the Kuroshio Current
• Honaker, D.: Geostrophy and Volume Transport of the North Atlantic Gyre
• Mather, B.: Investigation of Sverdrup Transport and Thermal Wind in the East Australian Current
• McIntyre, S.: Sverdrup, Geostrophic and Thermal Wind Relations in the Kuroshio Current
• Richards, M.: The Gulf Stream Western Boundary Current: Sverdrup Transport, Thermal Wind Shear and Pressure Fields
• Stevenson, S.: Thermal Wind and the Atlantic MOC
• Van Dam, B.: Velocity Shear and the Thermal Wind Effects in the Kuroshio and Surrounding Region

Issue 7: Aloha! Waves

• Bateman, R.: An Exploration of Kelvin Waves and El Nino-Southern Oscillation
• Evan, S.: Kelvin Wave Dynamics and Effects in the Ocean
• Pienciak, A.: Equatorial Kelvin Waves and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation
• Roberts, Y.: Using the Dispersion Relation to Examine Rossby Waves in the Tropical Pacific
• Soltys, M.: Tsunamis
• Walsh, H.: Tsunamis and the 2004 Indian Ocean Event

Important Note from the Editor/Instructor: These papers represent the best efforts of the students of ATOC 5051 to assimilate and use the information they were learning on the fly. These papers were written under very tight time constraints, and little revision or room for perfecting was allowed. Thus, while these papers were selected for content that is generally excellent, the reader encouraged to look at these papers as works in progress and disregard typographical or other minor errors. These papers have all been peer-reviewed by the class, but in many cases no revisions were made after the review due to time constraints.

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