12.802 | Spring 2004 | Graduate

Wave Motions in the Ocean and Atmosphere

Calendar

LEC # TOPICS
1 Basics
2 Boussinesq
3 Available Potential Energy
4 Internal Gravity Waves 
5 Surface Forced IGW’s
6 Curvilinear Coordinates
7 Pressure-like Coordinates
8 Surface Waves
9 Shallow Water Equations
10 Thermodynamics
11 Laplace Tidal Equations
12 Laplace Tidal Equations (LTE)
13 Hough Functions
14 Laplace Tidal Equations (VSE)
15 Equatorial Beta Plane
16 Rotating Waves in a Channel
17 Leewaves in Compressible Fluid
18 Quasigeostrophy
19 WKB Approx. and Atmospheric Modes
20 Eady Problem