- Chemical-physical properties of sea water.
- Balance of water, salt and heat balance in ocean basins.
- Introduction to Oceanic Dynamics.
- Equation of continuity. Equations of motion; Major forces in the oceanic dynamics; Coriolis's force. Scale analysis of the equations of motion and their most important approximations: traditional approximation, geostrophic balance and its degeneracy.
- Ekman spiral, drift currents.
- Large scale ocean circulation.
- Winds prevailing at the Earth's surface.
- Global wind-driven circulation: subtropical and subpolar gures, Antarctic circumpolar current. Sverdrup's balance.
- Potential vorticity and its conservation.
- Westward intensification.
- Thermohaline circulation: thermocline theories; Intermediate and deep water formation.
- Open ocean vorticity equation, justification of deep western boundary currents.
- The global ocean conveyor belt.
- Global Teleconferences: El Nino-Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation.
- Mediterranean counterparts of the large-scale ocean circulation mechanisms.