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2010-2011 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2010-2011 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

MAR 660 - Coastal Physical Oceanography

3 credits
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
Physics of the coastal ocean covering a wide variety of coastal physical oceanographic processes with emphasis on the continental shelf processes. Topics include tides and tidal currents, upwelling and downwelling, front processes, fresh water plumes, coastally trapped waves, boundary layer flows, and vertical and horizontal dispersion processes. This course is intended for students in IGS who require a working understanding of coastal ocean circulation and dynamics. Students enrolling in this course should be thoroughly comfortable with differential and integral calculus.