EEPS1520, Spring 2021 — Proceedings

EEPS1520. Ocean Circulation and Climate

Or, Notions for the Motions of the Oceans.
Examines physical characteristics, processes, and dynamics of the global ocean to understand circulation patterns and how they relate to ocean biology, chemistry, and climate change. Assignments address ocean's role in the climate system; ocean observations and models; the origin, distribution, and dynamics of large-scale ocean circulation and water masses; energy and freshwater budgets; and variability of the coupled system on seasonal to centennial timescales e.g. El Niño. Intended for geological and physical sciences undergraduate and graduate students with quantitative skills and an interest in oceans, climate, paleoclimate. Pre-requisite: EEPS 0250, EEPS 0350, PHYS 0720, or MATH 0180. Offered alternate years, previously offered as GEOL1100 and GEOL1520.

Baylor taught this class in Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2013.

Proceedings volumes: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2010, Spring 2008, Spring 2007.

You can access the syllabus, proceedings, class calendar, notes, and reading.

Notions for the Motions of the Oceans, Volume 8

Issue 1: 3 Kinds of Lies or Inside Joke

• Fan, X.: A Comparison of Salt and Heat Fluxes of the Indian Ocean of the 1997 El Niño and the 1999 La Niña
• Feske, J.: Decreasing Proportion of Loop Current Heat Transport in the Gulf of Mexico
• Lober, C.: Seasonal Deep Ocean Temperature and Salinity Variations in the Northern California Current System
• Lockhart, B.: Comparative review of temperature profiles from eWOCE and Reid-Mantyla data

Issue 2: I Get Around

• Fan, X.: The Ekman Transport of the South Atlantic Ocean
• Feske, J.: Ekman Suction in the Humboldt Current Robust to 1998 ENSO Variation
• Lober, C.: Seasonality of Ekman Transport and Chlorophyll Concentration in the Northern California Current System
• Lockhart, B.: Ekman Transport of Heat in the Northern Chilean Humboldt Current

Issue 3: Swimming Upstream

• Fan, X.: Western Boundary Current and Agulhas Retroflection in South Atlantic Ocean
• Feske, J.: Seasonal Variability of Sverdrup Transport in North-Atlantic Gyre
• Lober, C.: Meridional Transport through the Pacific Subarctic Gyres
• Lockhart, B.: Investigating the Seasonality of Meridional Transport in the South Atlantic Gyre

Issue 4: Meridional Overturning Circulation or Waves

• Fan, X.: Comparison of Meridional Overturning Circulation Structure in South China Sea
• Feske, J.: Seasonal Variation in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
• Lober, C.: A comparative review of the 2011 Tohoku and potential Cascadia Subduction Zone tsunamis
• Lockhart, B.: Identifying Rossby and Kelvin Waves Before and After the 1997-1998 El Niño

Important Note from the Editor/Instructor: These papers represent the best efforts of the students of to assimilate and use the information they were learning on the fly. These papers were written under very tight time constraints. Thus, while selected for content that is generally excellent, the reader is encouraged to look at these papers as works in progress and disregard typographical or other minor errors. These papers have all been peer-reviewed by the class and revised afterward.