Ocean Sciences (GATE XE) — GATE Engineering Sciences (XE) Prep
Vertical Profiles of Temperature and Salinity; Stability and Double Diffusion; Equation of State, Equations for Conservation of Mass, Momentum, Heat and Salt; Inertial Currents; Geostrophic Motion; Air-Sea Surface Fluxes; Wind-driven Circulation, Ekman and Sverdrup Transports; Storm Surges, Tides, Tsunamis and Wind Waves; Eddies and Gyres; Thermohaline Circulation. Chemical Properties of Seawater, Major and Minor Elements, Ocean Acidification, Biogeochemical Cycling of Nutrients; Biological Pump; Primary and Secondary Biological Productivity; Marine Ecology.
- Exam: GATE Engineering Sciences (XE)
- Section: XE7 Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (35M, choose any two)