Duration
20h Th, 20h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in oceanography (120 ECTS) | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course focuses on the description and understanding of the interactions between marine physical and biogeochemical processes from the small to the large space and time scales.
Table des matières:
Chapter I : The geohydrodynamic context
- Introduction
- Space and Time scales, spectral window
- Mathematical modelling
I The internal forces
- A. The molecular effects
- B. The stratification and internal waves
- C. The Coriolis effect
- D. The earth curvature effect
The heat exchange at the air sea interface
Chapitre III: Processes on a scale of less than 1 kilometer
- Biology and boundary layers
- Vertical structure of the open ocean: biology of the mixed layer
- Vertical structure in coastal waters: freshwater run-off and tidal mixing.
Chapitre IV: Processes on a scale of 1-1000 kilometers
- Fronts in coastal waters
- Vertical structure in coastal waters: coastal upwelling regions
- Tides, tidal mixing, and internal waves
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
To study the marin system in an interdisciplinary view combining the physics, biology and biogeochemsitry for different systems and at different space and time scales.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Face to face teaching.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
5-6 theoritical course
Recommended or required readings
All the lecture materials are available via eCampus.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Additional information:
Oral examination (June, August): Oral presentation of the homework during which the student will have to answer questions on the homework and on the lecture. The final note will reflect the quality of the homework, presentation and the answers of the student to questions on the lecture and homework.
All the exams are exclusevely in person.
Work placement(s)
There is no work displacement foreseen in the frame of this lecture
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The lecture takes place during the second part of the year (usually, first week of February)
Contacts
Prof. Marilaure Grégoire
MAST research group
Department of Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography
mgregoire@uliege.be