Test Exam

Test Exam, questions that you may encounter during the actual exam. Please send the answers to Markus by Monday, noon, so that he can identify gaps and give appropriate feedback on Tuesday.

• Why do we study oceanography to understand atmospheric $\mathrm{CO_2}$?
• What are the different plankton classes that we discussed?
• What is the Redfield ratio, and why is mostly constant?
• Which limitations to growth can plankton experience?
• What are the components of DIC and what determines their relative concentration?
• How do you set the interior of the ocean into motion?
• We discussed different dynamical regimes of the ocean. Name and describe them.
• Why do Rossby waves travel west?
• In your opinion, what is the least trustworthy component of the ocean component in climate models?
• What are the energy sources for the deep overturning circulation?
• What are the processes that caused the glacial $\mathrm{CO_2}$? concentrations to be only half of today’s?
• What are the key dynamical differences between atmosphere and ocean?

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