MASC 426 — Ocean Dynamics and Regional Oceanography
Marine and Fisheries Sciences · University of Ghana
Ocean mass-heat budgets. Ocean fluid dynamics: Coriolis effect, Ekman transport, Ekman pumping, geostrophy, Rossby and Kelvin waves, westward intensification, Sverdrup balance. Deep sea processes: Ocean waves, tides, thermohaline processes, vertical circulation, coastal and equatorial upwellings, ocean circulation. Shelf and nearshore processes: Transitional and shallow water waves, wave induced currents, shallow sea circulation and stratification, tides in shallow seas, local upwelling dynamics, fronts in shallow seas, shallow sea water masses. Regional Oceanography: Water mass formation, Oceanography of the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans. Oceans and climate: El Nino and Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- FISH 414 — Fish Processing and Utilization
- FISH 417 — Fisheries Data Management
- FISH 418 — Current Research in Fisheries Acquaintance with current research in
- FISH 421 — Fisheries and Higher Vertebrate Interactions
- FISH 424 — Fish Trade and Marketing
- FISH 425 — Fish Stock Assessment
- FISH 426 — Fisheries Governance and Institutional Framework
- FISH 429 — Fisheries Economics
- MASC 402 — Marine Pollution
- MASC 411 — Marine Plankton Ecology
- MASC 412 — Marine Ecology
- MASC 413 — Marine Benthic Ecology
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).