This course is divided equally into Meteorology and Oceanography. Topics in meteorology include the atmospheric environment - composition, vertical structure, radiative transfer, solar energy budget, enhanced greenhouse effect - simple global models, predictions for the future, atmospheric thermodynamics and humidity, thermodynamic diagrams, lapse rate and stability, surface boundary layer, turbulence balance equations, turbulent transport equations, vertical wind profile, logarithmic wind profile, friction velocity and roughness length, computation of vertical fluxes in the surface boundary layer. Topics in Oceanography include: properties of seawater, stability, diffusion, waves

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[Pre-requisite] MA2000 AND PH1005 AND (PH1007 OR EG1010 AND EG1011 AND EG1012)

[Pre-requisite] MA2000 AND PH1005 AND (PH1007 OR EG1010 AND EG1011 AND EG1012) Offerings: All

PH3006 - Physics of the Ocean and Atmosphere

Physics of the Ocean and Atmosphere

Employ sensors and integrate data measurements from an oceanographic field trip around Cleveland Bay

Solve mathematical and numerical problems in atmospheric thermodynamics, dynamic meteorology and physical oceanography related to the theoretical concepts

Communicate experimental physics data, results, and analysis using written analysis to detail experimental observations