12.804 Large-scale Flow Dynamics Lab, Fall 2005

Flierl, Glenn; Illari, Lodovica

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Flierl, Glenn; Illari, Lodovica

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Large-scale Flow Dynamics Lab

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Abstract

12.804 is a laboratory accompaniment to 12.803, Quasi-balanced Circulations in Oceans and Atmospheres. The subject includes analysis of observations of oceanic and atmospheric quasi-balanced flows, computational models, and rotating tank experiments. Student projects illustrate the basic principles of potential vorticity conservation and inversion, Rossby wave propagation, baroclinic instability, and the behavior of isolated vortices.

Date issued

2005-12

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60878

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

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12.804-Fall2005

local: 12.804

local: IMSCP-MD5-29b5729ada04b9c222786e8666eb318c

Keywords

flow dynamics laboratory, oceanic, atmospheric, quasi-balanced flows, computational models, rotating tank experiments, potential vorticity conservation, potential vorticity inversion, Rossby waves, Rossby wave propagation, baroclinic instability, vortices

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