PREFACE

The aim of this course is to introduce the students with marine and coastal environment. At the end of the course, the student will have the capacity to apply their knowledge in coastal and marine environmental management.

SYLLABUS

OCN‑502: Physical Oceanography        Credit: 4

1. Physical Oceanography: Introduction. Definition, Scope, Multidisciplinary investigation application for Bangladesh.

2. Relief of the Ocean: Physical feature of the ocean floor, ocean floor topography, trenches, oceanic ridges, submarine canyon, passive and active continental margin, continental shelves & slope, ocean floor of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean.

3. Ocean Sediments: Source of sediments, types, characteristics, depositional environments.

4. Ocean temperature: Temperature change, causes, vertical and horizontal distribution and Implication.

5. Ocean Salinity: Salinity change, causes, distribution and implication.

6. Ocean Currents: Causes, types, mean current in Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean.

7. Ocean Tide: Causes and effects. Global distribution, Implication.

8. Waves: causes, characteristics of wave actions, wave energy.

9. Storm surges and cyclones, characteristics, environmental consequences and management.

10. Sea‑level change: Definition, causes, past, present and future trends of S. L. changes. Consequences of S. L. changes.

11. Marine Environment: Marine climatic Zone, EL‑Nino. La‑Nina, Man‑Ocean relation.

Selected Readings 

1. Rhatt, J.J., Oceanography, 13. Van Nostrand Company, New York.
2. King, C.A.M., Oceanography for Geographers, Edwin Arnold Publishers Ltd.     London Sharma, R‑C. and Vatal, M. Oceanography for Geographers, Chaitanya Publishing House, Allahabad, India.
3. Carson, R.J., The Sea Around, Staples Press Ltd. London.
4. Engel, L., The Sea, Time Incorporated, London.
5. Islam. M.S. Sea‑Level Changes in Bangladesh 2001

CLASS SCHEDULE

Lecture-1. Physical Oceanography: Introduction. Definition, Scope, Multidisciplinary investigation application for Bangladesh.

Lecture-2. Historical Development of Oceanography

Lecture-3. Origin of the Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean,  and Ocean water

Lecture-4: Relief of the Ocean: Physical feature of the ocean floor, ocean floor topography, trenches, oceanic ridges, submarine canyon, passive and active continental margin, continental shelves & slope

Lecture-5: Relief of the ocean floor of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean; Bay of Bengal

Lecture-6: Ocean Sediments: Source of sediments, types, characteristics, depositional environments.

Lecture-7: Ocean temperature: Temperature change, causes, vertical and horizontal distribution and Implication.

Lecture-8: Ocean Salinity: Salinity change, causes, distribution and implication.

Lecture-9: Ocean Currents: Causes, types, mean current in Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean.

Lecture-10: Ocean Tide: Causes and effects. Global distribution, Implication.

Lecture-11: Ocean Waves: causes, characteristics of wave actions, wave energy.

Lecture-12: Storm surges and cyclones, genesis, characteristics, environmental consequences and management.

Lecture-13: Storm surge and Cyclones in Bangladesh, environmental consequences and management.

Lecture-14: Sea‑level change: Definition, characteristics, causes of Sea-level Changes

Lecture-15: Sea Level Changes:  past, present and future trends of S. L. changes. Consequences of S. L. changes; Sea-level Changes of Bangladesh

Lecture-16: Marine Environment: Marine climatic Zone, EL‑Nino. La‑Nina, Man‑Ocean relation.

 

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