Lecture Description
October 26, 2009
Effects of Temperature & Salinity
Physical Structure of the Oceans
Ocean Water - Layered by density: The Mixed Layer, The Pycnocline and The Deep Layer
Thermocline
Halocline
Pycnocline
Dissolved Gases in the Ocean
Oxygen (O2)
Carbon Dioxide
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Biological Nutrients
O2 and CO2 vs. Depth
Acid-Base Balance
pH Scale
The Carbonate Buffer System
The CO2 system and carbonate
Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling
Composition of the Atmosphere
Density of AirL
Lecture Notes: Lecture 13: Seawater and pH and wind.
Course Index
- Lecture 1: Introduction to Ocean Interactions
- Lecture 2: Earth and the origins of our oceans
- Lecture 3: The shape of the ocean floor
- Lecture 4: Shape of the ocean
- Lecture 5: Earth's morphology, magnetism and dating
- Lecture 6: Plate Tectonics
- Lecture 7: Plate Tectonics 4
- Lecture 8: California tectonics, marine sediments
- Lecture 9: Marine sediments
- Lecture 10: Sediments and Seawater
- Lecture 11: Sediments and Seawater
- Lecture 12: Seawater
- Lecture 13: Seawater, pH and Wind
- Lecture 14: Seawater, pH and Wind
- Lecture 15: Wind, Currents
- Lecture 16: Currents and Winds
- Lecture 17: Currents
- Lecture 18: Currents and Waves
- Lecture 19: Breaking waves, tsunami & tides
- Lecture 20: Tides, Marine Systems, Photosynthesis and Productivity
- Lecture 21: Photosynthesis, Respiration, Productivity, Habitats & Plankton
- Lecture 22: Phytoplankton, Diatoms, Dinoflagellates, Coccolithophores, Radiolaria & Ostracods
- Lecture 23: Ostracods, Copepod, Picoplankton, Migrating Plankton, Multicellular life, Origin of Animals, Nekton
- Lecture 24: Nekton and Benthos
- Lecture 25: Marine Resources
- Lecture 26: Climate Change
- Lecture 27: Climate Change
Course Description
In this course, Prof. Edwin Schauble gives 27 video lectures on Introduction to Oceanography. This class provides a general introduction to geological, physical, chemical, and biological processes and history of Earth's global oceanic system.
Prerequisites
•High school science background
– Math: algebra & geometry, graphs
– Metric units
– Geography: maps, Earth's major features, longitude & latitude
– Chemistry: elements, atoms, molecules, chemical equations
– Physics: matter, density, waves, velocity, energy, gravity
– Biology: genus, species, evolution, plants & animals
Original Course Name: Earth & Space Science 15: Introduction to Oceanography.
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