Courses of Study 2014-2015 
    
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Courses of Study 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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EAS 3530 - Physical Oceanography


(PBS)      
Fall. (Offered alternate years) 3 credits.

Prerequisite: BIOEE 1540 /EAS 1540  or BIOEE 1560 /EAS 1560  or equivalent, MATH 1120  or MATH 1920 , and PHYS 1112  or PHYS 2207 , or permission of instructor. 

B. Monger.

Covers thermohaline and wind-driven circulation and surface-ocean boundary-layer dynamics. Mathematical expressions for describing conservation of momentum, mass, and heat in a fluid are used to explain the ocean’s responses to wind and buoyancy forcing.



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