12.820 / 12.822 Turbulence in Geophysical Systems, Spring 2003

Ferrari, Raffaele; Flierl, Glenn R.; Legg, Sonya

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Ferrari, Raffaele; Flierl, Glenn R.; Legg, Sonya

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Turbulence in Geophysical Systems

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Abstract

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

2003-06

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36358

Department

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

Other 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

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