BSc Nautical Sciences Environmental Science II Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
This degree runs on the Choice Based Credit System throughout, items 4.69, 4.70 and 4.71 of the Academic Council of 23 July 2020, in force from the academic year 2020-21. The University’s earlier Credit Based Semester and Grading System syllabus is what her older third-year timetables name, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Environmental Science - II
Module I: Oceans
- Major relief features of the ocean-floor – Bottom relief of Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans – Properties of oceanwater: temperature, salinity and density – Their vertical and horizontal distribution – Ocean currents: factors and patterns – Ocean deposits: types and their work – NIO and its activities. Biotic resources of the oceans: fish corals, mangroves, etc– Distribution of biotic resources – Problems of their exploitation – Environmental and other stresses – Remedial measures – Mariculture: merits and limitations. Abiotic resources: types Oceanic mineral nodules and places – Oil and natural gas – Technological advances –Marine politics and law of the sea – Environmental oceanic problems and oceanic hot- spots – Future scenario. Oceanic water as a resource: navigation, power generation, source of drinking water etc. - Oceanic islands and their strategic significance – Indian Ocean islands.
Module II: Atmosphere
- WIND: Factors affecting atmospheric motion & the resulting winds; Beaufort scale of wind force; Geostrophic wind; Gradient and Cyclostrophic winds; pressure gradient force, Coriolis force, Buys Ballot’s law. Factors affecting atmospheric motion and the resulting winds – Newton’s laws and equation of motion – Basic Patterns of air movement. Horizontal and vertical distribution of atmospheric pressure and the resulting circulation – Recent advances in the knowledge of general circulation: upper air waves and jet stream – Dynamics of the Indian monsoon
Module III: Seasonal weather and climatic characteristics over
- India –Cyclones in Indian seas and their impact on coastal life. Weather forecasting: methods and techniques – Constraints in accurate forecasts
Module Practical
- 1. True and apparent wind and its vector calculation;
- 2 Interpreting Wind Rose.
- 3 Interpretation of weather maps
- 4 Estimation of geostrophic wind speed from geostrophic scale.
- 5 Reading and interpretation of I.M.D. synoptic maps.
Reference Books
- 1 Physical Geography Savindra Singh
- 2 An outline of Geomorphology Wooldridge & Morgan
- 3 Continental Drift D.H. and M.P. Tarling
- 4 Putnam’s Geology Birkland & Larson
- 5 Principles of Physical Geography F.J. Monkhouse
- 6 Oceanography J.J. Bhatt
- 7 Oceanography for geographers R.C. Sharma
- 8 The Oceans: Realities & Prospects R.C. Sharma
- 9 Atmosphere, Weather and Climate R.G. Barry
- 10 Climate and Weather Flohn Hermann
- 11 Introduction to Meteorology Petterssen
- 12 The Atmosphere Anthes R.A.
- 13 Climatology from Satellites Barrett E.C.
- 14 World Weather and Climate Riley D.R.
- 15 Introduction to Meteorology Cole F. W. Contents of Syllabus for US NSC 304 – MECS - II
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Nautical Science) under the Choice Based Credit System, in force from the academic year 2020-21. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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