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This course introduces the students to dynamics of large-scale circulations in oceans and atmospheres.
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Description
Basic concepts include mass and momentum conservation, hydrostatic and geostrophic balance, and pressure and other vertical coordinates. It covers the topics of fundamental conservation and balance principles for large-scale flow, generation and dissipation of quasi-balanced eddies, as well as equilibrated quasi-balanced systems. Examples of oceanic and atmospheric quasi-balanced flows, computational models, and rotating tank experiments can be found in the accompaniment laboratory course 12.804, Large-scale Flow Dynamics Lab.
Course content
- Introduction Unlimited
- Fundamental balance and conservations principles for quasi-balanced flow Unlimited
- Equations of motion Unlimited
- Circulation Unlimited
- Potential vorticity Unlimited
- Invertibility Unlimited
- Potential vorticity and invertibility in the shallow water equations Unlimited
- Quasigeostrophy and Pseudo-potential vorticity Unlimited
- Quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity Unlimited
- An example of the application of “potential vorticity” Unlimited
- Boundary conditions Unlimited
- Eady edge waves Unlimited
- The superposition principle Unlimited
- The secondary circulation Unlimited
- Higher-order balance systems Unlimited
- Rossby waves Unlimited
- Quasi-geostrophic Rossby waves Unlimited
- Barotropic instability Unlimited
- Barotropic instability (cont.) Unlimited
- The Charney-Stern theorem Unlimited
Instructor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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