INCOIS Training Course on An Introduction to the Blue Ocean

01 - 12 June 2015,

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services
INCOIS, Ocean Valley, Pragathi Nagar BO, Nizampet SO

Hyderabad 500090
Andhra Pradesh
India



Agenda



1 Brief History of Oceanography, Space and Timescales, Properties of Seawater
2 Atmospheric Circulation, Air-Sea Interactions, El NiƱo, other tropical modes
3 Dynamical Processes of Ocean Circulation, Wind-driven and Thermohaline circulations
4 Vorticity, Potential Vorticity, Planetary and Gravity waves and Instabilities
5 Sverdrup Balance, Western and Eastern Boundary Currents, Equatorial Circulation