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This course is an introduction to basic ideas of geophysical wave motion in rotating, stratified, and rotating-stratified fluids.
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This course includes
Hours of videos
361 years
Units & Quizzes
13
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Certificate of Completion
Subject begins with general wave concepts of phase and group velocity. It also covers the dynamics and kinematics of gravity waves with a focus on dispersion, energy flux, initial value problems, etc.
Course Currilcum
- Waves Unlimited
- Slowly varying media: ray theory Unlimited
- Surface gravity waves Unlimited
- Energy equation Unlimited
- Initial value problem — homogeneous medium Unlimited
- Internal waves Unlimited
- WKB theory for internal gravity waves — non rotating case Unlimited
- Internal waves modified by rotation — unbounded fluid Unlimited
- The oceanic wave guide: normal modes of a stratified, rotating fluid Unlimited
- Unbounded domain — non rotating reflection from a solid boundary Unlimited
- Laplace tidal equations on the sphere Unlimited
- Shallow water equations with rotation — Poincaré waves Unlimited
- The Kelvin wave Unlimited
