GEOL1100, Spring 2013

GEOL1100. Global Physical/Descriptive Oceanography

Or, Notions for the Motions of the Oceans. Brown Critical Review Link
Examines physical characteristics, processes, and dynamics of the global ocean to understand circulation patterns and how they relate to ocean chemistry and large scale climate change. Assignments address origin and distribution of water masses, heat and water budgets, thermohaline and wind-driven circulation systems, dynamics of the oceanic conveyor belt, and El Niño.

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

Web Resources and Texts

1. Paper writing guidelines, the Science of Scientific Writing
, and Orwell's Politics and the English Language
2. Peer reviewing guidelines.
3. Reading assignment guidelines.
4. Matlab guidelines.
5. ECCO guidelines.
6. AGU/GRL Article Length Tool
   This is an automated article length calculator for AGU. All assignments for this class must pass the GRL length calculation.
7. Science Center Advising
8. Writing Center

Main Textbooks

1. Talley, Pickard, Emery, & Swift, Descriptive Physical Oceanography, 6th Ed. DPO for short above.
2. Colling, Ocean Circulation, 2nd Ed.. OC for short above, On-campus direct

Secondary Online Textbooks

1. Robert H. Stewart's Introduction to Physical Oceanography
   Web-distributed basic but comprehensive textbook.
2. Tomczak and Godfrey's Regional Oceanography: An Introduction
   Tomczak and Godfrey's nice descriptive textbook.
3. Tchernia's Descriptive Regional Oceanography.
   An equation-free descriptive text.
4. Chapman and Malanotte-Rizzoli's Notes on Henderschott's Wave Motions in the Ocean
   A readable and short ocean wave text.
5. IPCC AR4, 2007: Synthesis Summary, Physical Science Summary, and Chp5: Oceanic Climate Change

The Competition

1. Lynne Talley and Myrl Henderschott's SIO 210: Intro to Physical Oceanography
   A similar class to ATOC5051 at Scripps from Fall, 2008.
2. Henderschott, Winant, Send, & MacKinnon SIO 210: Intro to Physical Oceanography
   A similar class to ATOC5051 at Scripps from Fall, 2009.
3. Lisa Beal's MPO 503 at RSMAS

Additional Fun Reading

Nonfiction

1. Cook, The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World, Vol. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.
2. Maury, 1860: The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology
3. Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
4. Darwin, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
5. Sverdrup, New Land: Four Years in the Arctic Region
6. Nansen, Farthest North, Vol 1 and Vol 2.
7. M'Clintock, The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas
8. Bowditch, The American Practical Navigator
9. Philander, Our Affair with El Nino
10. Emanuel, Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes

Fiction

1. Dana, Two Years Before the Mast
2. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
3. Homer, The Odyssey
4. London, The Sea Wolf
5. Melville, Moby Dick
6. Stevenson, Treasure Island
7. Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

GFD Lab

1. Hart and Kittelman GFD Lab
2. John Marshall's (MIT) GFD Lab
3. National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films
4. Ruddick & Hebery Internal Wave Lab Demos
5. Alistair Fraser's Bad Coriolis, with related Southern Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere movies... Snopes version. Here's how to do it right. (very, very carefully! don't just flush)

Data

1. The Dataserver for Class Data at Fox-Kemper.com/data
2. National Climate Data Center NOMADS Archive
3. A list of available ocean reanalysis products
4. CLIVAR & Carbon Hydrographic Data Office
5. A Discussion Board with lots of links to datasets.
6. Some NASA Data.
7. National Oceanographic Data Service
8. Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (USGODAE)
9. NOAA Physical Sciences Division (PSD)
10. International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (iCOADS)
11. Southampton NOCS Flux Datasets (Winds, Heat Fluxes, etc.)
12. Ocean Watch Live Access Server: easy satellite data access.
13. PO.DAAC Home: another easy satellite data access.
14. Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO)
15. International Research Institute for Climate and Society/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (IRI/LDEO)
16. NOAA National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS)
17. EPIC
18. World Ocean Circulation Experiment
19. ARGO array data
20. ARGO data repository
21. GODAE Live Access data server (use to map ARGO Data)
22. ARGO data browser (use for individual float measurements)
23. AVISO SSH Datasets
24. Global Drifter Program
25. Ice-Tethered Profiler Data
26. SCOW Wind Climatology

ECCO Data Assimilating Models

1. ECCO
2. ECCO2

Other Models

1. PCMDI IPCC (CMIP3 and CMIP5) runs
2. Some simple matlab programs I wrote. See especially inertial oscillator.

Software

1. Matlab
   • Matlab, and using netcdf in Matlab
   • Matlab Sea-Mat: Matlab Oceanography Tools
   • TEOS-10 Thermodynamic Equation of State 2010 Toolbox
   • Matlab OPeNDAP Ocean Toolbox
2. Ocean Data View
• ODV Install.
• ODV Ready-to-use Data
3. Java Ocean Atlas (Software & Data)
4. LaTeX
• Tug.org, where to download LaTeX
5. ncBrowse, a java netcdf browser
6. ncview, a graphical netcdf file browser.
7. A tool for producing pdf output on PCs/Windows

Websites

1. To What Degree? NSF Climate Change Report
2. UN Ocean Atlas
3. NOAA Interactive Global Bathymmetry
4. LDEO Deep-Sea Sample Repository
5. Cleon Teunissen's Rotation Physics
6. GISS Temperature Trends
7. IPCC Home Site
8. NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center
9. IRI ENSO Page
10. NOAA/PMEL ENSO Page
11. NOAA Tsunami Page
12. MBARI Seafood Watch

Brown Specific Guidelines

1. Disability Support Services
2. Academic & Student Conduct Codes, *Note* Prof. Fox-Kemper regards inappropriate cellphone and laptop use as disruptive behavior.
3. Academic Code