SO 414 - Oceanic and Atmospheric Processes
The material for this course is an ongoing work in progress. I welcome all comments and correction pertaining to the content below.
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Lecture Notes
Chapter 1 - Properties of Solid liquids and gasses, notation, relative motion near a point
Chapter 2 - Density in the atmosphere and ocean
Chapter 3 - Stability in the Atmosphere and ocean
Chapter 4 - Conservation of Mass
Chapter 5 - Derivation of Navier Stokes equation
Chapter 6 - Derivation of apparent forces in a rotating frame
Chapter 7 - Boundary conditions
Chapter 8 - Geostrophic flow, Thermal and Gradient winds
Chapter 9 - Turbulent forces, Ekman spiral and transport
Chapter 10 - Review of Stommel's and Monk's results of Westward intensification
Chapter 11 - Derivation of the vorticity equation and potential vorticity
Chapter 12 - Barotropic and Baroclinic instability
Labs
Lab 1 - Experimental verification of the parabolic shape of a fluid surface in a rotating tank
Lab 2 - Equation of state of seawater
Lab 3 - Stability
derivative.m stable.m ctd_data
Lab 4 - Geostrophic flow
Pressure field Geostrophic flow m file
Lab 5 - Taylor Proudman demo
Lab 6 - Double Gyre Flow
Assignments
Lecture power point presentations