12.802 | Spring 2008 | Graduate

Wave Motion in the Ocean and the Atmosphere

Lecture Notes

Additional lecture notes will be added once they are available.

LEC # TOPICS FILES
1 Waves (PDF)
2 Slowly varying media: ray theory (PDF)
3 Surface gravity waves (PDF)
4 Energy equation (PDF)
5 Initial value problem — homogeneous medium (PDF)
6 Internal waves (PDF)
7 WKB theory for internal gravity waves — non rotating case (PDF)
8 Internal waves modified by rotation — unbounded fluid (PDF)
9 The oceanic wave guide: normal modes of a stratified, rotating fluid (PDF)
10 Unbounded domain — non rotating reflection from a solid boundary (PDF)
11 Laplace tidal equations on the sphere (PDF)
12 Shallow water equations with rotation — Poincaré waves (PDF)
13 The Kelvin wave (PDF)