SO 513 - Honors Oceanic and Atmospheric Processes
The material for this course is an ongoing work in progress. I welcome all comments and corrections pertaining to
the content below. Please email comments and corrections to:
Textbooks:
Kundu, P., I. Cohen, and D. Dowling, Fluid Mechanics. Academic Press, 2012.
Stewart, R., Introduction to Physical Oceanography, Texas A&M
University, 2008.
Emanuel, K., 2004: Tropical cyclone energetics and structure. In Atmospheric
Turbulence and Mesoscale
Meteorology, E.
Fedorovich, R. Rotunno and B. Stevens,
editors,
Cambridge University
Press, 280 pp
Course documents:
Course
syllabus
Course
policy
Calc 1 and 2 review sheet
Lecture Notes
Lesson 1
- Index notation
Cool link to Scale of the Universe here
Lesson 2 - Mass Continuity
Lesson 3 - Navier Stokes equationsLesson 4 - Apparent forces
Lesson 5 - Turbulence and Ekman
Lesson 6 - Geostrophic wind, thermal wind, Taylor-Proudman columns
Lesson 7 - Equations of state for air and water
Lesson 8 - Oceanic stability
Lesson 9 - Vorticity
Lesson 10 - Barotropic and baroclinic instability
Lesson 11 - Stommel's model of oceanic circulation
Labs
Lab 1
- Exploring index notation
coastline.mat
Lab 2
- Experimental verification of the parabolic shape of a fluid surface in a
rotating tank
Lab 3 - Ekman layer in the upper-ocean
Assignments
Assignment 1