EAS 3530 Physical Oceanography
NOT OFFERED THIS YEAR Fall. 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 1120 or 1920, or one year of physics, or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years. B. Monger.
The course covers thermohaline and wind-driven circulation and surface-ocean boundary-layer dynamics. Mathematical expressions for describing conservation of momentum, mass, and heat in a fluid are used to explain the ocean’s responses to wind and buoyancy forcing.