12.820 | Spring 2006 | Graduate

Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere

Lecture Notes

ch15.pdf

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Lecture notes about transformed Eulerian mean, the quasi-geostrophic equations on a ?-plane, potential vorticity fluxes and the Eliassen-Palm theorem, mean momentum and buoyancy budgets: conventional approach, the transformed Eulerian mean theory, the QGPV flux and the residual Ertel PV flux, parameterizing mesoscale motions in numerical models, the energetic argument, and the potential vorticity mixing argument.

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Lecture Notes