OC3212 Polar Meteorology/Oceanography

Operational aspects of Arctic and Antarctic meteorology, including polar lows, boundary layer and marginal ice zone influences. Polar oceanography. Sea ice amount, seasonal distribution, melting and freezing processes, physical and mechanical properties, drift and predictions. Physical oceanography of currents and water masses, deep and bottom water formation, fronts and eddies, polynya processes.

Prerequisite

MR3222 and OC3240, or consent of instructor

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

Students will gain an expert level understanding of the processes and feedbacks controlling the time evolving polar climate states, including their forcing of sea ice cover via various coupling channels with the atmosphere, land, and ocean, in response to and with impact on the lower latitude climate change.