NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
-PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY 
Ocean basins and sea bottom. Physical and chemical properties 
of sea water. Sound and radiation in the oceans. Inter- 
action between the ocean and the atmosphere. Exchange of heat 
and water between sea and air. The sea surface as a hydro- 
dynamic interface. 
LABORATORY WORK IN OCEANOGRAPHY (given at the Woods Hole 
Oceanographic Institution and on the New York University 
research vessel.) 
Practical work with the more common oceanographic instruments 
such as Nansen bottles, bathythermographs, reversing deep-sea 
thermometers, sea samplers, current meters. 
OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS OF ANALYSIS 
Demonstration, description, and theory of instruments used to 
obtain oceanographic data. Methods of evaluation of records. 
- Presentation and analysis of data. 
WAVE MOTIONS IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND IN THE OCEAN 
Theory of atmospheric and ocean waves and of large perturbations 
in the westerlies of temperature latitudes and in the tropical 
easterlies. Effect of the spheroidal shape of the earth. Tides. 
METHODS OF THEORETICAL METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY 
Meteorological and oceanographic fields. The equations governing 
these fields and their solutions. Boundary-value problems and 
eigenvalue problems in oceanography and meteorology. Incompress- 
ible and compressible flows. The theory of bores and pressure 
jumps. Theory of atmospheric and oceanic oscillations. Viscous 
flows. The diffusion of atmospheric and oceanic properties. 
GEOPHYSICAL RANDOM PROCESSES 
Applications of the theory of random processes to turbulence, 
wind-generated ocean waves, large scale atmospheric motions, 
short- and long-range weather forecasting, geomagnetic activity, 
microseisms, and radar storm detection. (Alternates with Analysis 
and Forecasting of Ocean Waves - spring term 1964, 1966...) 
GEODYNAMICS 
The dynamics of geophysical systems with special emphasis on the 
atmosphere and oceans. Atmospheric thermodynamics. The hydro- 
dynamic equations for a rotating earth. 
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