ATOC-5061 (3) Dynamics of Oceans

Explores theories of the large-scale ocean, including quasigeostrophic, planetary geostrophic, and shallow water equations. Topics may vary to focus on ocean climate (e.g. thermocline, westward intensification), ocean waves (e.g. gravity, Rossby, and Kelvin), or ocean models (toy, analytic, and numerical). Maybe repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Department enforced prereqs., ATOC 5400 and ATOC 5051 or ATOC 5060. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.