Nome da Disciplina: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY AND OCEAN DYNAMICS

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Créditos: 4

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Oceans Big Picture, Oceanographic Exploration and milestones in understanding the Ocean; Development of theoretical ideas and history of ocean exploration; Importance of measurements in oceanography and the sampling problem; dimensions of the ocean, sea-floor features and ocean structure; Atmospheric forcing of the ocean: Oceanic winds and Wind Stress; Terms in the oceanic heat budget and direct calculation of fluxes; Indirect Calculation of fluxes from bulk formulas and other sources; Geographical and seasonal distribution of fluxes; Geographical Distribution of Temperature and Salinity; The oceanic Mixed Layer and Thermocline; Density, Potential Temperature, and Neutral Density; Measurement of Temperature and salinity With Depth; Light in the Ocean; Equations of Motion; Dominant Forces for Ocean Dynamics; Coordinate Systems; Types of flow in the Ocean; Conservation of mass and salt; The total derivative of Momentum Equation and Conservation of Mass: Continuity Equation solutions to the Equations of Motion; Influence of Viscosity, turbulence and Reynolds stresses; Stability and mixing in the Ocean; Inertial motion, Ekman Layer and Ekman currents; Ekman Transports and application of Ekman Theory; Hydrostatic Equation and Geostrophic Approximation, Geostrophic Currents, Satellite Altimeter Measurements of Surface Geostrophic Currents; Calculating Geostrophic Currents from Hydrographic Data; Barotropic and Baroclinic flow; Sverdrup's theory of the oceanic circulation; Stommel's Theory for western boundary currents; Basin-scale theory: Munk's solution; Vorticity definitions; Conservation of vorticity, Vorticity and Ekman pumping; Wind Driven Ocean Circulation in the South Atlantic, Brazil Current and South Atlantic recirculation; Importance of the deep circulation, role of the oceans in climate and abrupt climate change; Stommel-Arons' theory of the deep circulation; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Equatorial processes: surface and subsurface currents; El Niño/La Niña: The variability of the equatorial currents; state of art of numerical modelling of the Oceans.

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