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Physical Oceanography


Teaching Staff: To be announced
Course Code: ΤΠ-50052
Course Type: Elective
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Semester: 5th΄
ECTS: 4
Teaching Units: 3
Teaching Hours: 3
Short Description:
  • General description and marine climatology of the Oceans.
  • The main enclosed and semi-enclosed basins. The Mediterranean basin.
  • Chemical composition and thermodynamic properties of the seawater. Salinity.
  • The major circulation patterns of the global Ocean. Wind-generated and thermohaline circulation. Oceanic flow scales, geostrophic currents. Heat, salt, and other properties flow through the oceanic circulation.
  • Seawater equations of state and buoyancy. Vertical pressure distribution under hydrostatic equilibrium. Horizontal pressure variations, barotropic and baroclinic conditions.
  • The Geoid, equipotential surfaces under hydrostatic equilibrium – Sea surface dynamic topography. Tides. Static properties of seawater masses and vertical motions development. Typical thermodynamical structure of a seawater column.
  • Wind-generated waves and evolution. Ocean waves spectrum and wave propagation. Evaporation, sea-atmosphere mass fluxes, and salinity.
  • Evaporation and freshwater flux climatology in the global Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
  • Sea-atmosphere heat and energy fluxes and the sea surface temperature.
  • Wind-generated currents, the Ekman zone, mass transport in Ekman zones. The atmospheric forcing on the development of oceanic convection.
  • Development of oceanic meridional circulation systems. The global ocean thermohaline circulation and its climatic impact. Major ocean-atmosphere processes and interactions of special interest in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.
  • Concentration and dilution basins, baroclinic currents. General circulation of the Mediterranean Sea, characteristics and variability. Coastal circulation, sediment, and mass transport. Coastal erosion. Coastal up- and down-welling. Coastal wave types and characteristics. Wave propagation through straits and channels. Tidal waves propagation.

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