| An insight is provided of the physical nature of the coastal environment (lagoons, beaches, sand dunes, estuaries), the factors affecting coasts, the motion of seawater from the molecular to the global scale including vorticity and circulation, barotropic, baroclinic, and geostropic current and Ekman transport. Mechanisms of ocean circulation and occurence of tsunamis, eddies, waves, tides, turbulence, and deep water currents will be explained. Interaction of the ocean with atmospheric processes for climate study, principles of physical meteorology, data collection and presentation, and weather forecasting will also be introduced. Climate change, climatic hazards and vulnerability, impacts, and mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures will be discussed. |
Administrative assistant: RAINA FERHANA HOSSENBUX
Telephone: 4037400
Email: r.hossenbux@uom.ac.mu |
