SO 513 - Honors 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. Please email comments and corrections to:
Textbooks:
Kundu, P., I. Cohen, and D. Dowling, Fluid Mechanics. Academic Press, 2012.
Stewart, R., Introduction to Physical Oceanography, Texas A&M
University, 2008.
Emanuel, K., 2004: Tropical cyclone energetics and structure. In Atmospheric
Turbulence and Mesoscale
Meteorology, E.
Fedorovich, R. Rotunno and B. Stevens,
editors,
Cambridge University
Press, 280 pp
Course documents:
Course
syllabus
Course
policy
Calc 1 and 2 review sheet
Project-based learning:
Overview and guidelines
Grading rubric
Lecture Notes
Lesson 1
- Properties of Solids, Liquids, and Gasses
Quick review of index notation
Cool link to Scale of the Universe here
Lesson 2
- Density and Equation of State for the Ocean
Atm and Ocean properties - Lesson 2 Power Point
Lesson 3
- Stability
- Double diffusion
- Salt fingering explained
Lesson 4 - Mass Continuity
Lesson 5 -
Navier Stokes equations
- Lesson 5 extended: Bernoulli applications
Lesson 6 - Apparent forces
Lesson 7 - Geostrophy, Thermal and Gradient winds
Lesson 8 - Boundary Conditions
Lesson 9 - Turbulence and Ekman
Lesson 10 - Modeling the Gulf Stream
Lesson 11
- Potential Vorticity
- Addendum
Lesson 12 - Barotropic and Baroclinic instabilities
Lesson 13 - Tropical Cyclone Energetics
Lesson 14 - Laplace's equation solution
Labs
Lab 1
- Equation of state of seawater
- GulfStrm_Lab1.xls
- constants_lab1.xls
- ro.m
- bulkmod.m
Lab 2 - Stability
- Smithsonian data
Lab 3
- Experimental verification of the parabolic shape of a fluid surface in a
rotating tank
Lab 4 - Double Gyre Flow
Assignments
Assignment 1