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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- 5 stars67.93%
- 4 stars21.09%
- 3 stars4.21%
- 2 stars3.37%
- 1 star3.37%
TOP REVIEWS FROM OCEANOGRAPHY: A KEY TO BETTER UNDERSTAND OUR WORLD
Video lectures should be in English. Slides in the lectures were dimly projected. It was very difficult to understand lectures and slides.
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.
Amazing course to explore the oceanography knowledge.
it was a great experience to learn about oceans from highly professional experts
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