SO 335 - Quantitative Methods for Meteorology and Oceanography
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Course syllabus
- Updated Syllabus (9 Nov 2012)
Lecture Notes
Chapter 1
- Variables, Constant and Dimensions
- Problems worked on first day of
class
Chapter 2
- Vectors review
Chapter 3 - Review of Partial Differential Operators
Chapter
4
- Advection and Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks
Examples of Material Derivative
Chapter 5 - Flow visualization - streamlines, streamfunctions and velocity potential
Chapter 6 - Taylor's series and vector integral theorems
Chapter
7 -
Mass Continuity
Handout -
Leibnitz rule applied to fixed volume
Chapter
8
- Equations of motion (Newton's second law)
- Derivation example (in-class example)
Chapter 9 - Equations of motion in a rotating frame and Geostrophic flow
Chapter 10 - Conversion from rectangular to polar coordinates and gradient wind
Chapter 11 - Basic Statistics
Labs
Lab 1 - Introduction to MATLAB
Lab
2 - Graphing in MATLAB
- Data
Lab 3 - Div, Grad and Curl
Lab 4 - Eulerian and Lagrangian Flow
Lab 5 -Taylor Series, Gauss Theorem and Conservation laws
Lab 6 - Geostrophic and Gradient winds
Assignments