Wave Motion in the Ocean and the Atmosphere

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LEC #	TOPICS
1	Waves
2	Slowly varying media: ray theory
3	Surface gravity waves
4	Energy equation
5	Initial value problem — homogeneous medium
6	Internal waves
7	WKB theory for internal gravity waves — non rotating case
8	Internal waves modified by rotation — unbounded fluid
9	The oceanic wave guide: normal modes of a stratified, rotating fluid
10	Unbounded domain — non rotating reflection from a solid boundary
11	Laplace tidal equations on the sphere
12	Shallow water equations with rotation — Poincaré waves
13	The Kelvin wave
14	Rossby or planetary waves
15	Reflection and energetics of Rossby waves
16	The equatorial wave guide
17	The shelf problem and edge waves
18	Coastal trapped waves
19	Quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity equation in a stratified atmosphere
20	Energetics with a mean flow for the ocean and atmosphere
21	Topographically forced, steady Rossby waves with a zonal flow in an isothermal atmosphere
22	Waves with a mean flow — ocean