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Physical Oceanography Department

The Physical Oceanography Department teaches the interaction between climate and marine systems by having students reproduce ocean circulation, waves, tides, and thermohaline circulation through general-circulation-model (GCM) simulation. Students practice reproducing circulation patterns directly through GCM-based simulation, graduating with hands-on proof that they can analyze and explain climate-ocean interaction using modeling tools.

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Field-based Curriculum · 12

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Wind-Driven Circulation
Wind-Driven Circulation
A course on wind-driven circulation, deriving the theoretical chain of Ekman tra…
Vagn Walfrid Ekman
Tidal Dynamics
Tidal Dynamics
A course on tidal dynamics centred on the progression from equilibrium to dynami…
George Darwin
Ocean Wave Dynamics
Ocean Wave Dynamics
A course on ocean wave dynamics centred on wind-wave energy transfer (Miles-Phil…
Walter Munk
El Niño–Southern Oscillation Dynamics
El Niño–Southern Oscillation Dynamics
A course on the dynamics of El Niño-Southern Oscillation, teaching the coupled o…
Jacob Bjerknes
Geostrophic Circulation & Water Mass Dynamics
Geostrophic Circulation & Water Mass Dynamics
A course on geostrophic circulation and water-mass dynamics, training the practi…
Bjørn Helland-Hansen
Polar Oceanography
Polar Oceanography
A course on polar oceanography, teaching ice-ocean-atmosphere coupled processes …
Fridtjof Nansen
Oceanographic Instrumentation & Water Mass Research
Oceanographic Instrumentation & Water Mass Research
A course on oceanographic instrumentation and water-mass research, treating the …
Sven Otto Pettersson
Pacific Ocean Circulation & Observation
Pacific Ocean Circulation & Observation
A course on Pacific circulation and its observational history, treating the stru…
Klaus Wyrtki
Rotating Frame Dynamics
Rotating Frame Dynamics
A course on rotating-frame dynamics, deriving apparent forces such as the Coriol…
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Theoretical Ocean Dynamics
Theoretical Ocean Dynamics
A course on theoretical ocean dynamics, systematically building the governing eq…
Joseph Proudman
Ocean Mixing & Wave-Turbulence Interaction
Ocean Mixing & Wave-Turbulence Interaction
A course on ocean mixing and wave-turbulence interaction, teaching small-scale m…
Owen Martin Phillips
Tidal Harmonic Analysis & General Circulation Theory
Tidal Harmonic Analysis & General Circulation Theory
A course on tidal harmonic analysis and general-circulation theory, teaching the…
William Ferrel