Western boundary intensification, barotropic currents and baroclinic transport over topography. Meso-scale eddies and variability. Indian Ocean dipole circulation, Linear waves, wave spectra, wave propagation. Wave energy eqn. Breaking waves, reflection and dissipation, theory of tides, Tidal currents. Tidal processes in embayments and estuaries, Wind and buoyancy driven currents, Near-shore circulation, alongshore and rip currents, littoral drift, sediment transport, coastal ocean response to wind forcing, storm surges, coastal upwelling and fronts, Kelvin, Yanai, Rossby, inertia-gravity waves.
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