12.802 | Spring 2008 | Graduate

Wave Motion in the Ocean and the Atmosphere

Calendar

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