Geography
163
Ocean Circulation
Spring 2008
Lecture: TR
1230-145 HSSB 1173 (code = 53405)
Section 1: W
2-250 ELLISN 2620
(59923)
Section 2: R 11-1150 ELLISN 2620 (59931)
Instructor: David
Siegel (siegel@geog.ucsb.edu,
x4547, 6844 Ellison)
Office
hours: Tu & Wed 4:00-4:50 or by appt.
T.A.:
Candida Dewes (candida@icess.ucsb.edu,
6803 Ellison)
Office
hours: Mon or by appt.
Syllabus: Download pdf
Data Sources, etc.
· NOAA live access to
climate data server
· TOGA/TAO home
page and data server
· CLIVAR
Repeat Hydrography Global Survey
· Near
real time satellite altimetry data site
· Global
Surface Drifter Program
Oceanography Projects,
etc.
· North
Atlantic Oscillation Page at Columbia Univ
· Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
· WHOI
Ocean Instrumentation Page
· WHOI
Ocean Observatories Page
Other Oceanography
Pages
· TOPEX/Poseidon
Farewell Video
Online Oceanographic Calculators
· Dan
Kelley's seawater property calculator
· Matthias
Tomczak's collection of ocean property calculators
Web Course Materials
· Matthias
Tomczak's excellent web course at Flinders Univeristy
· Bob
Stewart's web textbook (mostly graduate level)
Lectures
April 1 Introduction
April 3 Seawater properties Web readings!!!
April 8 Buoyancy & mixing
April
10 Wind
forcing
Rotation & wind stress Also carousel movie
April 15 Ekman transport & inertial currents Ekman Obs
April 17 Pressure
April 22 Geostrophy
April 24 Convergence & mesoscales
April 29 Gulf
Stream
May
1 Review
May 6 Midterm Exam!!!
May 8 Vorticity
& Western Intensification
May 13 Coastal
Upwelling & Equatorial
Circulation
May 15 Equatorial
Waves
May 20 ENSO 97/98 ENSO
Review
May 22 Monsoons & High
Latitudes Arctic
Ice review
May 27 High
Latitude Oceans & Heat
Budgets
May 29 Salt
Budgets & Abyssal Circulation
June 3 Conveyor
Belt
June 5 Global
Warming Chapter
5 AR4 Sea Level
Homework