1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Exercises	15

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Wind-driven currents in the seas: models developed by Weenink, Felzenbaum and Welander. Comparison with the wind-driven currents in the oceans: models proposed by Sverdrup, Stommel and Munk. Seiches: analytical modeling of generation and decay, development of a simple one-dimensional numerical model, comparison with the observations. Topographic Rossby waves: analytic models for the straight coast and circular basin. Exercises include analyses of analytic solutions for various sets of parameters and one-dimensional numerical modeling of seiches.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Students will be able to
1. identify wind-driven currents in the seas and oceans,
2. analyze seiches, on the basis of measurements, not only in time domain but also in frequency domain,
3. formulate a simple numerical model of the seiches,
4. identify topographic Rossby waves in inland seas.

1. LeBlond P.H.and L. A. Mysak: Waves in the Ocean, Third Impression, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1989.
2. Pugh D. and P. Woodworth: Sea-Level Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014.
3. Schwind J. J.: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics for Oceanographers, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1980.
4. Simons T. J.: Circulation Models of Lakes and Inland Seas, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Ottawa, 1980.
5. Stocker T. and K. Hutter: Topographic Waves in Channels and Lakes on the f-Plane, Springer Verlag, New York, 1987.

Mandatory course - Regular study - Meteorology and Physical Oceanography