Programme

The course is designed to provide students with the fundamental information for understanding the interactions between the atmosphere, the ocean, and the earth's surface, the main physical-chemical processes connected, and the impacts on air and sea quality. The course intends to deal with the interconnection and inter / multidisciplinary aspects of the phenomena involved and to provide information on the measurement principles of various properties of the atmosphere and the ocean.

Course program
Structure and composition of the atmosphere. Atmospheric dynamic processes. Main gases and trace gases. Particulate matter and clouds. Emissions and chemical reactions in the atmosphere. Chemical reactions relevant to air quality. Planetary limit layer and its evolution.
Structure and composition of the ocean. Salinity, temperature, density. Oceanic dynamic processes. Scrambled layer, thermocline. Chemical composition and marine pollutants.
Exchanges of energy and matter between atmosphere, ocean, earth. Elements on the hydrological cycle and the carbon cycle. Techniques and methods of measurement of some atmospheric and oceanographic parameters.

Core Documentation

Hartmann, D.L., Global Physical Climatology. Elsevier, 2016.

Stewart, R. H., Introduction to physical oceanography, 2008. http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /160216.

Wallace, J.M., e P. V. Hobbs, Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey. Academic Press, 2006.

Type of delivery of the course

Traditional lessons. The lessons will be based on: presentations on screen and blackboard, and small experiments.

Type of evaluation

The examination will be oral and based on thre main questions. The questions will concern, respectively: - atmospheric processes - oceanographic processes - interactions between the surface and the atmosphere.