Fisheries oceanography – processes, patterns & variability- Winter School on towards Ecosystem Based Management of Marine Fisheries – Building Mass Balance Trophic and Simulation Models

Abstract

Oceanography is the scientific discipline concerned with all aspects of the world's oceans and seas, including their physical and chemical properties, their origin and geologic framework, and the life forms that inhabit the marine environment. Traditionally, oceanography has been studied under four separate but related branches: physical oceanography, chemical oceanography, marine geology, and marine ecology. Meteorology is another subject closely related to oceanography and inseparably linked to the physical processes of the ocean