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
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
Chapitre II The geohydrodynamic variability
I The internal forces
- A. The molecular effects
- B. The stratification and internal waves
- C. The Coriolis effect
- D. The earth curvature effect
II The external forces
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
- Vertical structure in coastal waters: coastal upwelling regions
- Fronts in coastal waters
- Tides, tidal mixing, and internal waves
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
To study the marin system in an interdisciplinary view
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Small research work on the subject and presentation of this work.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
5-6 theoritical course
Recommended or required readings
Available
Assessment methods and criteria
Presentation of the work and questions on the course
Work placement(s)
There is no work displacement foreseen in the frame of this lecture
Organizational remarks
The lecture takes place during the second part of the year (usually, first week of February)
Contacts
Teachers: M. Grégoire
Marilaure Grégoire, Laboratoire d'Océanologie, ULg
e-mail : mgregoire@ulg.ac.be
tel : 043663354