The course for a round the world regatta leads the boats through the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic, Southern Indian and South Pacific Oceans. On their voyage, the skippers come across a large variety of oceanographic situations: strong currents, floating ice, wave formations of every kind and biological diversity.
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Oceanography: a key to better understand our world
Universitat de BarcelonaAbout this Course
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Try Coursera for BusinessSyllabus - What you will learn from this course
1A - The Mediterranean: a model of an ocean - Temperature, salinity and pressure.
1B - The Mediterranean: a model of an ocean - Water masses and circulation
2. The Global Ocean
3A. Satellite oceanography: all eyes on the planet (I)
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- 3 stars4.23%
- 2 stars3.38%
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TOP REVIEWS FROM OCEANOGRAPHY: A KEY TO BETTER UNDERSTAND OUR WORLD
Amazing course to explore the oceanography knowledge.
The course is very informative , helps in attaining a pile of knowledge about the oceanic world and its reserves. Conveying my gratitude to University of Barcelona for conducting such a course.
very informative lectures and study materials helped a lot.loved this course
Video lectures should be in English. Slides in the lectures were dimly projected. It was very difficult to understand lectures and slides.
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