Course Outline:

1. Properties of seawater, observational methods
2. T-S forcing and conservation laws
3. Global T-S distribution
4. Fluid dynamics on rotating sphere
5. Description of large-scale gyres
6. Barotropic dynamics of large-scale gyres
7. Large-scale overturning
8. Surface gravity waves (nonrotating and rotating)
9. Tides
10. Internal gravity waves
11. Mixing, turbulence, surface layer
12. Rossby waves, instability and mesoscale eddies
13. Coastal processes: currents, fronts, estuaries
14. El Nino