CLIM 750: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Spring 2012)

Grading

Grading will be based on final (25%), midterm (25%) and problem sets (50%). Problem sets will be every week or two.

Calendar

Individual topics do not exactly correspond to given dates. Calendar is subject to change.

Part 1 Waves (Klinger)

  1. 1/26 Wave Properties and Surface Gravity Waves
  2. 2/ 2 Shallow Water Gravity Waves
  3. 2/ 9 Two Layers and Continuous Stratification
  4. 2/16 Properties and Flow Over Topography
  5. 2/23 Potential Vorticity and Rossby Adjustment
  6. 3/ 1 Potential Vorticity Waves and Adjustment of Ocean Basins
  7. 3/ 8 Evolution of isolated Rossby Waves, Nonlinear Effects
    3/15 SPRING BREAK
  8. 3/22 Mid Term

Part 2 Instability (DelSole)

  1. 3/29 Quasigeostrophic Equations
  2. 4/ 5 Charney-Stern Theorem
  3. 4/12 Illustrations of the CS theorem, the continuous spectrum
  4. 4/19 Superposition principle
  5. 4/26 non-normal growth
  6. 5/ 3 Edge waves, Unstable Baroclinic waves.

Final: Thu, 5/10 10:30 - 13:15

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Last modified: 24 Feb, 2012