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EAS 4300/6124: Introduction to Oceanography, FALL 2006
INSTRUCTOR: Emanuele Di Lorenzo phone 404-894-3994 office ES&T 3244 email [email protected]
Ellery Ingallphone 404-894-3883office ES&T 2130email [email protected]
TA: Vincent Combesemail [email protected]
Course Website http://ocean3d.org/eas-4300
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Why do we care about Oceanography?
How is oceanography important in understanding future climate?
What aspects of ocean sciences are relevant to the economy?
How can humans impact the ocean and climate?
Questions for you
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How is oceanography important in understanding future climate?
Oceanography and Climate
Climate changes occur on different space and time scales.
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Thermoregulating effects (e.g. moist air of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extensions)
Oceanography and Climate - seasonal timescales
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Posted 8/8/2005 3:26 PM Researchers study changes in hurricane intensityMIAMI (AP) — Researchers are using a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to study why a hurricane's intensity can undergo sudden, dramatic changes.
Oceanography and Climate - seasonal timescales
Sea surface temperature in the tropical oceans fuel hurricanes
If ocean circulation changes (e.g. stronger meridional temperature gradient or higher heat content of upper ocean)
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Oceanography and Climate - interannual timescales
El Niño is the strongest signal of climate variability on interannual timescales. It is a coupled mechanism between the tropical ocean and atmosphere.
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Thomson, R. E., and J. F. R. Gower, 1998: A basin-scale oceanic instability event in the Gulf of Alaska. J Geophys Res-Oceans, 103, 3033-3040.
Oceanography and Climate - interannual timescales
Ocean Vortices are one of the strongest mixing agent in the ocean, they are important for ocean circulation and biology. Their role in climate is still unknown!
NORTH AMERICA
Gulf of Alaska
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Changes of ocean circulation affects fish distributions and abundance.
Oceanography and Climate - decadal timescales
Sardines/Anchovies
synchronized alternations between sardines/anchovies over the entire Pacific Ocean?
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Changes in the ocean/atmosphere affect the ice caps, and therefore Sea Level.
Oceanography and Climate - longer timescales
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Marine Ecosystem regulate the cycling of chemical species relevant to climate (e.g. Carbon, DMS)
Chlorophyll Spring 2005 (MODIS Satellite)
Oceanography and Climate - longer timescales
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Oceanography and Climate - millenial timescalesVertical circulation of the ocean MOVIE:
The Day After Tomorrow
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e.g. The ocean has a very long memory. We will learn about this, and about the mechanisms of interaction between ocean-atmosphere-land-ecosystems.
Oceanography and Climate
Climate changes occur on different space and time scales.
What makes it interesting is that processes happening on different temporal and spatial scales are not separable and interact with each other A NONLINEAR SYSTEM COMPLEXITY
WHY?
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Resources in the Ocean and Economy
What aspects of ocean sciences are relevant to the economy?
Geological Resources extraction of petroleum, gas, metals, etc.
Ecological Resources mainly food from fisheries and maricultures
Energy Resources extraction of power from waves, tides, currents and heat content
Chemical Resources e.g. development of new drugs, salts, etc.
Recreational Resources of coastal areas, e.g. beaches and more
The study Oceanography helped discover these resources and is helping managing them (e.g. coastal processes and beaches, and many more…)
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Ocean Resources, Economy and OceanographyAn example: The City of Venice, ITALY
1. Dump: rain and tides distribute it in the lagoon)
2. Factory: factories drained their liquid waste partly into the lagoon and partly into dumps. Currents and erosion continue to disperse pollutants.
3. Sea: Meteorological conditions can accentuate high tides. Bora, a cold northerly in the Adriatic Sea, and Sirocco, a hot, dust-laden wind from the Libyan desert, can trigger dangerously high tides.
4. River: the Republic of Venice diverted four rivers that originally flowed into the lagoon. The loss of the silt and sediment is transforming the delta environment into a marine one.
5. Farm: 53 percent of the phosphates and other pollutants that enter the lagoon come from these sources.
6. Town: About 1,400,000 people live in the basin, but when one considers the quantity of nutrients and organic matter generated, environmentalists say, it is as if 4,000,000 people lived there.
Offshore GAS extraction platforms
Adriatic Sea
opening to sea
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Ocean Resources, Economy and OceanographyAn example: The City of Venice, ITALYusing oceanography and ocean engeneering
Adriatic Sea
More at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venice/
opening to sea
Install Gates to control the tide
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Humans impacts on the Ocean and Climate
How can humans impact the ocean and climate?
dying corals, poisen fish, global warming
cholera in India, changes in Mediterranean species
city of venice was an example
Alterations: chemical (e.g. mercury, aerosols, green house gases, oil)
biological (e.g. introducing new faunas, phosphate from changes in land use, overfishing …)
physical/geological (e.g. shoreline interventions …)
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CNN: Asian Brown Cloud' poses global threatAugust 12, 2002 Posted: 10:43 PM EDT (0243 GMT)
Humans impacts on the Ocean and Climate
Satellite view
Aerosols change:radiation budgetclouds concentrationamount of rain in clouds
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CNN: Asian Brown Cloud' poses global threatAugust 12, 2002 Posted: 10:43 PM EDT (0243 GMT)
Humans impacts on the Ocean and Climate
Where does it come from?The sources are changing fast
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Humans impacts on the Ocean and ClimateOceanography in the Indian Ocean play a crucial role in isolating and understanding the impacts of asian aerosols.
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… the aerosol is only one piece of a more complex puzzleThe Global Warming Issue
0.8 C
from thermometers
from paleo records
May human actually have something to do with this?An important question discussed by politician (G8 summit) and scientists (IPCC)
http://www.o3d.org/eas-4300/lectures/refs/EcosystemsClimate.pdf
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How do we define the science of Oceanography?
My personal interest
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Ocean and climate dynamicsPhysical-biological interactions in the oceanOcean Forecasting
I do not collect observations, but I travel to beautiful places!
Strategy of my research:Use theoretical/mathematical models of the ocean to diagnose observations
Tools:Ocean modeling and data assimilationStatistical data analysis
I studied oceanography in San Diego at theScripps Institution of Oceanography
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Figure 0.5