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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHY 645 - Ocean Circulation and Modeling

3 credits
Prerequisites: PHY 550 or permission of instructor
Theories of ocean circulation, including wind-driven and thermohaline components, and their numerical modeling. The concepts of geostrophy, Sverdrup-to-Strommel dynamics, stratification, rotation, and diffusion processes are discussed for the general circulation features in all three world oceans. Primitive equation-based numerical modeling experiments are discussed for the global-scale, basin-scale, regional-scale, and feature-based models.