Subjects for student presentations

Prepare a fifteen minutes presentation (power point or such), on descriptive/ dynamical aspects of one of the following topics, based on textbooks, net, and other sources chosen with the help of the TF. Power point files will be posted to course home page after your presentation.

  1. Water masses
    1. North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW), Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW), Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW). Itay Halevy: ppt,
    2. MODE (18 degree) waters ppt,
    3. Mediterranean water in the Atlantic, Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW), Adriatic/ Ionian/ West Mediterranean deep water. Elie Galam: ppt,
  2. Making observations
    1. Satellites: infrared, scatterometer, altimeter. Glenn Sterenborg: ppt, pdf,
    2. Ship-based observations: CTD, STD, Nansen bottles, inverting thermometers Ben Lee: ppt, movie,
    3. Floats: profiling floats, ARGO, SOFAR, RAFOS, ALACE, PALACE, APEX
    4. Moorings and current meters Ellen Martinsek: ppt
  3. Ocean bottom topography and geometry
    1. The ocean bottom topography, mid-ocean ridges, hydrothermal vents: Ellen Martinsek: ppt
    2. The evolving oceans: ocean's geometry over the past billion years. Dave Jones: animation, ppt
  4. Major currents
    1. Gulf stream, recirculation, and other other western boundary layer currents: Elie Galam: ppt,
    2. The antarctic circumpolar current (ACC): Dave Jones: ppt,
    3. Abyssal circulation and deep western boundary currents Glenn Sterenborg: pdf,
    4. Indonesian through-flow and Equatorial currents and undercurrents. Eric Leibensperger: ppt,
  5. The oceans and climate variability
    1. El Nino's global teleconnections: African drought, South American floods, North American rains Atreyee Bhattacharya: ppt,
    2. Thermohaline circulation: Doug McClure: ppt,
    3. The oceans and anthropogenic CO2: VY Chow: ppt,
  6. Sea ice
    1. Antarctic Sea Ice and Polynyas Itay Halevy ppt,
    2. Thinning Arctic sea ice (and global warming) Atreyee Bhattacharya: ppt,
  7. Waves and tides
    1. Tides: Doug McClure: ppt
    2. Tsunamis: Saira Hashmi: ppt and more.
    3. Wind waves Saira Hashmi: ppt
  8. Climate
    1. The fate of Greenland ice under global warming Ben Lee: ppt
    2. West Antarctica and the antarctic ice shelves: Eric Leibensperger: ppt