一、課程簡介:
The focus of this class is the study of biological, chemical, physical, and geological structure and function of coastal systems; a worldwide survey with emphasis on important coastal habitats and processes

I. Introduction. Definition of coastal and shelf regions.

II. Review of Ocean Dynamic:
Geostrophy,
Ekman transports,
Sverdrup balance.

III Circulation:
Measuring currents: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), current meters, drogues, high frequency radar.
Forcing of circulation: winds, tides, inertial motion.
Ekman layer dynamics for shallow seas with stratification.
Sea level set-up and buoyancy-driven flows.

IV. Upwelling dynamics.
Wind-driven upwelling
Dynamic uplift and tidal pumping
Zonation of upwelling processes

V. Waves
Wave classification, dispersion, wind waves.
Long waves: tsunamis, seiches, internal waves.
Coastal trapped waves and other oscillations.
Tides: Tidal mixing, Tidal or shelf-sea fronts.

VI. Chemical Properties and Water Quality
Chemical properties, nutrients, inorganic and organic constituents.
Ambient concentrations of measurable variables.

VII. Ecosystems
Microbiological organisms
Phytoplanktons
Benthic community


二、先修課程:
none.

三、參考書目:
Ecology of Coastal Waters (K. H. Mann), Blackwell Sciences, Inc. ISBN 0-86542-550-7
Introductory Dynamical Oceanography (Stephen Pond and George Pickard), Pergamon Press, ISBN 0-08-028728-x