CLIM 750: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Spring 2008)

Grading

Grading will be based on final (30%), midterm (20%) and problem sets (50%). Problem sets will be every week or two.

Calendar

Individual topics do not exactly correspond to given dates.

Part 1 Waves (Klinger)

  1. 1/24 Wave Properties and Surface Gravity Waves
  2. 1/31 Shallow Water Gravity Waves
  3. 2/ 7 Two Layers and Continuous Stratification
  4. 2/14 Properties and Flow Over Topography
  5. 2/21 Potential Vorticity and Rossby Adjustment
  6. 2/28 Potential Vorticity Waves and Adjustment of Ocean Basins
    Evolution of isolated Rossby Waves, Nonlinear Effects
  7. 3/ 6 Midterm (Klinger at Ocean Sciences Meeting)
    3/13 SPRING BREAK

Part 2 Instability (DelSole)

  1. 3/20 Barotropic Instability, Rayleigh Inflection Theorem
  2. 3/27 Superposition Principle, Kelvin-Orr Problem
  3. 4/ 3 Generalized Stability Analysis I: Linear Algebra, SVD
  4. 4/10 Generalized Stability Analysis II: Optimals
  5. 4/17 Quasigeostrophic Equations, Associated Energy Equation
  6. 4/24 Eady Model, Edge waves
  7. 5/ 1 Charney Stern Theorem, Charney Model

Final (Klinger/DelSole)

  • Thu, 5/8 10:30 - 1:15
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