Physical oceanography examines the motions, properties and processes that influence the world’s oceans. It is concerned with currents, waves, tides, internal mixing and the exchanges that occur ...

Description: Introduces descriptive and dynamical physical oceanography, focusing on the nature and dynamics of ocean currents and their role in the distribution of heat and other aspects of ocean ...

Physical oceanography is the study of the physics of marine systems. It includes the distribution of temperature and salinity, water mass formation and movement, ocean currents, interior and ...

Record amounts of sargassum are floating in the Caribbean Sea and ending up on beaches from Puerto Rico to Guyana — but ...

“While seals have been used to study the physical oceanography of polar regions for some time, this is one of the first studies to use seal-collected data to address physical oceanographic questions ...

These scientists and educators bring extensive knowledge and experience in a variety of fields including climate science, geophysics, physical oceanography, marine biology, geology, biotechnology, and ...

We track spatially coherent large-scale MHWs from a set of snapshots indicating MHW occurrences during 1982-2022 and provide a comprehensive characterization of their intensity and movement patterns.

Physical Oceanography is the field of study that deals with mechanisms of energy transfer through the sea and across its boundaries, and with the physical interactions of the sea with its surroundings ...

Scientists’ understanding of the physical processes in the ocean is ... an oceanographer at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, “but there are so many unknowns about the ...

Students wishing to specialize in the Oceanography track will enroll in courses that satisfy the core curriculum requirements. ATOC also offers a Graduate Level Certificate in Oceanography.

David Barclay’s group specializes in acoustics, with particular emphasis on measurement and interpretation of deep-ocean noise and sediment acoustics. They also are active in the modelling of sound ...