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)
- 1/26 Wave Properties and Surface Gravity Waves
- 2/ 2 Shallow Water Gravity Waves
- 2/ 9 Two Layers and Continuous Stratification
- 2/16 Properties and Flow Over Topography
- 2/23 Potential Vorticity and Rossby Adjustment
- 3/ 1 Potential Vorticity Waves and Adjustment of Ocean Basins
- 3/ 8 Evolution of isolated Rossby Waves, Nonlinear Effects
3/15 SPRING BREAK
- 3/22 Mid Term
Part 2 Instability (DelSole)
- 3/29 Quasigeostrophic Equations
- 4/ 5 Charney-Stern Theorem
- 4/12 Illustrations of the CS theorem, the continuous spectrum
- 4/19 Superposition principle
- 4/26 non-normal growth
- 5/ 3 Edge waves, Unstable Baroclinic waves.
Last modified: 24 Feb, 2012