Wave Motion in the Ocean and the Atmosphere
As taught in: Spring 2008
A Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) buoy being deployed in the Pacific Ocean from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown. (Image courtesy of NOAA.)
Instructors:
Prof. Paola Rizzoli
MIT Course Number:
12.802
Level:
Graduate
Course Features
Course Description
This course is an introduction to basic ideas of geophysical wave motion in rotating, stratified, and rotating-stratified fluids. Subject begins with general wave concepts of phase and group velocity. It also covers the dynamics and kinematics of gravity waves with a focus on dispersion, energy flux, initial value problems, etc.
