Note: As with most if not all academic work, the lecture notes represent the instructor’s view of the material and incorporate derivations drawn from many sources. In some cases references and/or sources may be incomplete.
| LEC # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Basics (PDF) |
| 2 | Boussinesq (PDF) |
| 3 | Available Potential Energy (PDF) |
| 4 | Internal Gravity Waves (PDF) |
| 5 | Surface Forced IGW’s (PDF) |
| 6 | Curvilinear Coordinates (PDF) |
| 7 | Pressure-like Coordinates (PDF) |
| 8 | Surface Waves (PDF) |
| 9 | Shallow Water Equations (PDF) |
| 10 | Thermodynamics (PDF) |
| 11 | Laplace Tidal Equations (PDF) |
| 12 | Laplace Tidal Equations (LTE) (PDF) |
| 13 | Hough Functions (PDF) |
| 14 | Laplace Tidal Equations (VSE) (PDF) |
| 15 | Equatorial Beta Plane (PDF) |
| 16 | Rotating Waves in a Channel (PDF) |
| 17 | Leewaves in Compressible Fluid |
| 18 | Quasigeostrophy (PDF) |
| 19 | WKB Approx. and Atmospheric Modes (PDF) |
| 20 | Eady Problem (PDF) |