Guia docente 2016_17 Facultade de Ciencias do Mar

Learning outcomes

Expected results from this subject	Training and Learning Results
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The student should be able to do measurements of temperature, salinity, currents, light attenuation, waves and tides with the present available methodologies in physical oceanography	A3	C5 C12 C13	D15
The student should be able to interpret the meaning, implications and interrelationships of the main meteorological and oceanographic variables/parameters	A3	C1 C4 C5 C12 C13
The student has to know how to calculate variables derived from the basic parameters such as speed of the sound, dynamic height, density, frequency of Brunt-Vaisala, stability and interpret them properly.	A2 A3	C1 C4 C12 C13 C15	D4 D15
The student has to understand the principles and main uses of several advanced oceanographic instruments and its implications in current physical oceanography (i.e., High Frequency radars, gliders, lines of data)	A2 A3	C1 C12 C13	D4 D15
The student should understand and distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of the several wave and tide related energy systems available	A2 A3	C1 C5 C6 C15 C38	D15
The student has to be able to understand the complete process of treatment of pertinent data of oceanographic probes (CTD), and to use at an intermediate user level programs of generation of charts and analysis of the oceanographic information such as Surfer, Ocean Data View and the Seabird proprietary Seabird system.			D4 D15