Class Id: 7890
Days: TF
Start Time: 09:30 AM
End Time: 11:00 AM
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Course Id: 3490
Departments and Numbers: AOS 572
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Title: Atmospheric and Oceanic Wave Dynamics
Description: Observational evidence of atmospheric and oceanic waves; laboratory simulation. Surface and internal gravity waves; dispersion characteristics; kinetic energy spectrum; critical layer; forced resonance; instabilities. Planetary waves: scale analysis; physical description of planetary wave propagation; reflections; normal modes in a closed basin. Large-scale barclinic and barotropic instabilities. Eady and Charney models for barclinic instability, and energy transfer.
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Professors: Isidoro Orlanski, Sonya A. Legg
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