Home | Schedule | Description | Outline | Homeworks | Links | Instructor
Meeting time is TueThu 2:00-3:15 in 105 (Tue) and 203 (Thu) Robinson Robinson (27 75 minute periods)
Date: | Notes | Topic/Work | Materials | Assignment | Movies | |
------------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | --------------------- | ----------- | |
1. Feb.-7: | .ppt | Introductions, Rossby and Froude # | C-R&B Chapt.-1 | SG01 | 1 | |
2. Feb.-9: | Rotating Frames: Coriolis | Stommel | H01 | SG02 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
3. Feb.-14: | .pdf | Error | Rotating Frames: Momentum | Pedlosky | SG02 | ||
4. Feb.-16: | Rotating Frames: Scalar, Vorticity, Inertia | Vallis | SG03 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
Feb.-21: | No Class: Ocean Science Mtg. | |||||
Feb.-23: | No Class: Ocean Science Mtg. | |||||
5. Feb.-28a: | Conservation of Mass and Momentum | C-R&V Chapt.-3&4 | SG03 | |||
6. Feb.-28b: | Equations of Motion: Scaling | C-R&V Chapt.-3&4 | SG03 | |||
7. Mar.-1a: | Conservation of Energy and Partial Mass | C-R&B Chapt.-3&4 | ||||
Geostrophy: Parameter Space | C-R&B Chapt.-7 | 1 | 2 | ||||
8. Mar.-6 | .pdf | .ppt | Geostrophy: Vortex Tube Stretching | C-R&B Chapt.-7 | .jpg | ||
9. Mar.-8 | Potential Vorticity Conservation | C-R&B Chapt.-7 | ||||
10. Mar.-13 | Rossby Adjustment: Steady States | Gill, Chapt.-7 | H02 | 1 | 2 3 | 4 | ||
11. Mar.-15 | .pdf | .pdf | Rossby Adjustment: Transients | Gill, Chapt.-7 | .ppt | .f77 | 1 | 2 | |
12. Mar.-20 | Asymptotic Expansion about Geostrophy | Pedlosky, Chapt.-3.12 | ||||
13. Mar.-22 | Rossby Waves | C-R&B Chapt.-9 | ||||
------------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | --------------------- | ----------- | |
14. Apr.-3 | .pdf | .ppt | Ekman Dynamics: Vertically Integrated | Gill, Chapt.-9.1 to 9.3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
15. Apr.-5 | Ekman Pumping and Vorticity | Gill, Chapt.-9.4 to 9.6 | ||||
16. Apr.-10 | Sverdrup's Eastern Gyres | Sverdrup (1947) | Wunsch (2011) | |||
------------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | --------------------- | ----------- | |
17. Apr.-12 | Mid-Term Exam E-mail | Class #1-#13 | Closed Book | |||
------------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | --------------------- | ----------- | |
18. Apr.-17 | .pdf | .ppt | Stommel's Western Boundary Currents | C-R94-8 | Stommel | H04 | ||
19. Apr.-19 | .pdf | .pptx | WBC Review, Barotropic Instability | C-R&B Chapt.-10 | |||
20. Apr.-24 | Barotropic Instability | C-R&B Chapt.-10 | ||||
Thermodynamics, Gas Laws | (not covered) | |||||
21. Apr.-26 | .pdf1 | .pdf2 | Stratification: Scaling, Froude # | C-R&B Chapt.-11 | H05 | Mermaid | |
22. May-1 | Froude Rossby #, Thermal Wind | C-R&B Chapt.-11, 15 | ||||
23. May-3 | .ppt | Stratified Geostrophy, Layer Models | C-R&B Chapt.-12, 15 | H06 | ||
24. May-8 | Geostrophic Adjustment | C-R&B Chapt.-15 | 1 | 2 | |||
25. May-10 | .pdf | .pdf | Quasi-Geostrophic Dynamics | C-R&B Chapt.-16 | |||
26. May-15 | .pdf | .ppt | Linear QG Rossby waves with stratification | C-R&B Chapt.-16 | Early (2011) | 1-9 | |
------------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | --------------------- | ----------- | |
May-22 | Final Exam 1pm-3pm (8am-8pm) | Comprehensive | Open Book | Soluteion C> | D | ||
------------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | --------------------- | ----------- |
Last updated: Fri May 25 22:06:26 EDT 2012