Quasi-Balanced Circulations in Oceans and Atmospheres | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | MIT OpenCourseWare

Lecture Notes

An example

Baroclinic Instability

Barotropic instability

Boundary conditions

Circulation

Eady edge waves

Equations of motion

Fundamental balance and conservations principles for

Higher-order balance systems

Introduction

Invertibility

Potential vorticity

Potential vorticity and invertibility in the shallow water equations

Quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity

Quasi-geostrophic Rossby waves

Quasigeostrophy and Pseudo-potential vorticity

Rossby waves

The Charney-Stern Theorem

The secondary circulation

The superposition principle

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Kerry Emanuel

Departments

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

As Taught In

Fall 2009

Level

Graduate

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