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OCEANOGRAPHY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

B14. MARINE METEOROLOGY AND ITS INTERACTION WITH THE OCEAN

  • Fluxes and forces in the atmosphere and the basic equations of fluid motion.
  • Geostrophic winds.
  • Fronts formation and evolution in the atmosphere.
  • Thunderstorms, weather in synoptic scale.
  • Basics of climatic variations (El Nino effect).
  • Basics of the Greenhouse effect and the role of the ocean.
  • The marine atmospheric boundary layer and the ocean mixing layer.
  • Dynamic interactions/transfer laws near the ocean-atmosphere interface.
  • Wind waves and their role in atmospheric – ocean interaction.
  • Deep convection and deep water formation.
  • Bio-geo-chemical cycles in the ocean.