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ATOC 5051, Fall 2008 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.

Second Proceedings of ATOC 5051

Introduction to Physical Oceanography, 2008

Notions for the Motions of the Oceans, Volume 2

Issue 1: 3 Kinds of Lies

• Bachman, S.D. and M.T. Hannon: ERSST.v3 data for reconstructing ENSO frequencies
• Baldwin-Stevens, E.C.: A brief study on the errors and applications of comparable oceanographic datasets
• Brakebusch, M.: The dependence of sea ice on salinity
• Hannon, M.T. and S.D. Bachman: El Nino and relationships to mean SST: Using ERSST.V3
• Luebke, A.E.: An analysis of the 2006 Indian Ocean Dipole event using the Argo dataset
• Stokowski, D.M.: Ocean temperature observations in the NINO3.4 region from the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Project
• Walton, M.: Investigation of the utility of ocean measurements in detecting variations in Arctic snowmelt

Issue 2: Inside Joke

• Neely III, A.R.R.: Monthly Southern Ocean Heat Budget from ECCO Data
• Rudolph, J.V.: Salinity budget for the Caribbean Sea
• Wong, J.: Brief salt budget for Gulf of Mexico

Issue 3: I Get Around

• Baldwin-Stevens, E.C.: June upwelling and Ekman layer pumping and transport off the West Coast of the United States
• Raudzens Bailey, A.: Sensitivity of U.S. Pacific coastal upwelling to climate variability based on ECCO and SCOW
• Brakebusch, M.: The Ekman pumping at southwest African coast
• Koyama, T.: The Ekman transports of the Kuroshio Extension region and the Large Meander events
• Walton, M.: Variation in Ekman transports along the southwest coast of Greenland

Issue 4: Swimming Upstream

• Caramore, J. and S. LeBlanc: Investigation of meridional flows following the Sverdrup and thermal wind balance in the North Atlantic Gyre
• Neely III, A.R.R.: Analysis of western boundary current of the Brazil Current at 20°S in the 199 Iteration of the ECCO dataset
• Raudzens Bailey, A.: Western boundary current structure and transport along the Brazilian coast, 24°S
• Stokowski, D.M.: Decomposing the East Australia Current
• van Lier-Walqui, M.: The Brazil Current--Dynamics across the 20°S Transect
• Zhu, Y.: The characteristics of current transport and shear in Subtropic Atlantic Ocean

Issue 5: Smile and Wave

• Bachman, S.D.: Modern methods for surface gravity waves over bathymetry
• Caramore, J.: Earthquake and landslide generated tsunamis and the potential threat of Cumbre Vieja Volcano
• Hannon, M.T.: A look at Rossby waves
• Koyama, T.: Tsunami--Extended review of gravity waves
• Luebke, A.E.: The relationship between Kelvin waves, Rossby waves, and El Niño: a reviwe
• Rudolph, J.V.: Bathymetry and surface gravity waves at Mavericks
• van Lier-Walqui, M.: Reflection of Rossby waves a the Western Pacific Maritime Boundary
• Wong, J.: Properties of the intraseasonal Pacific equatorial Kelvin waves
• Zhu, Y.: A wave-like propagation of salinity in the tropical Indian region

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. Thus, while 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 and revised afterward.

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