A Brief Review of Algebra and Calculus.- Some Properties and Kinematics of Fluids.- Equations Governing the Motion of a Fluid (the Equation of Motion).- Flow of a Homogeneous Incompressible Viscous Fluid.- Rotating, Homogeneous, Incompressible Fluids.- Shallow Water Theory.- Quasi-geostrophic Theory.
About the Author: Emin Özsoy
Professor and head, Physical Oceanography
Professional:
1977-1978: Staff Engineer, Tetra Tech Inc., Jacksonville, FL, USA
1978-1983: Assistant Professor, IMS-METU
1983-1989: Associate Professor, IMS-METU
1989-present: Professor, Physical Oceanography Section, Institute of
Marine Sciences, METU, Erdemli, Mersin, Turkey
1989: Visiting scientist, IMGA-CNR, Modena, Italy
1989-1990: Visiting Professor, UNESCO and Fulbright Fellow, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2014-2015: Visiting Scientist, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2015-2016: Visiting Scientist, EIES-ITU
Research Interests and Contributions:
- Ocean modeling / Levantine Basin of the Eastern Mediterranean, Black
Sea, Caspian Sea, Turkish Straits System
- Shelf seas - circulation, cascading flows / Cilician Basin, Black Sea shelf - Sea straits - dynamics, transport, modeling / Turkish Straits System
- Seas with islands /quasi-geostrophic dynamics
- Ecosystems /coupled hydrodynamics-ecosystem modeling - Double diffusive convection / Black Sea boundary and interior mixing
- Operational oceanography /observing systems, forecasting
- Atmospheric science / air-sea fluxes, dust transport, meteorological forecasting
- Oceanographic use of tracers / deep water renewal, transport
- Tidal inlets / tidal jet flows, sediment transport, morphology - Tsunamis / modeling Eastern Mediterranean tsunamis
- Climate variability and climate change / in the Seas of the Old World (e.g.
Black Sea, Mediterranean and Caspian Seas) - History of oceanography / 17th century work of Marsili in the Bosphorus
Projects: - POEM Consortium - Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean