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OCEANOGRAPHY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

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/Fundamentals of climatic variations (El Nino effect)
  • Basics/Fundamentals 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 and their impact/effect