12.820 / 12.822 Turbulence in Geophysical Systems, Spring 2003
Author(s)
Ferrari, Raffaele; Flierl, Glenn R.; Legg, Sonya
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Alternative title
Turbulence in Geophysical Systems
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This course presents the phenomena, theory, and modeling of turbulence in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere. The scope ranges from the fine structure to planetary scale motions. The regimes of turbulence include homogeneous flows in two and three dimensions, geostrophic motions, shear flows, convection, boundary layers, stably stratified flows, and internal waves.
Date issued
2003-06Other identifiers
12.820-Spring2003
local: 12.820
local: 12.822
local: IMSCP-MD5-0ff63803929ad66a6b12eb8e9a98b731
Keywords
oceans, atmosphere, fine structure, planetary scale motions, homogeneous flows, geostrophic motions, shear flows, convection, boundary layers, stably stratified flows, internal waves, turbulence flows, earth, energetics, isotropic homogeneous 2D turbulence, isotropic homogeneous 3d flows, quasi-geostrophic turbulence, parameterizing turbulence, wave dynamics, turbulent dispersion, coherent structures, 12.820, 12.822, Geophysics