Assignments
(all problems are from the Vallis text,
unless otherwise noted)
- 11 September Problems 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6,
1.7, and 1.8
- 18 September Chpt. 1: 9, 10, 12,
13, and 14 + verify the vector identities used in class
- 25 September 1.4, 1.15, 1.18, 1.20 and 2.19 (the part about the anelastic equations is optional)
- 2 October 1.19, 2.1, 2.2, 2.12, 2.20
- 9 October 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.11, 2.13, and 2.14
- 23 October 2.4, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.23
Bonus material: Ferrel's 1856 "essay"
on the Coriolis force
- 6 November 3.1, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
- 13 November 3.10, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14
- 20 November 5.3, 5.6, and work out the
interacting edge wave problem which we discussed in class, to obtain
the growth rate equation (6.42) in Vallis. Consider changes in
the parameters a and U_0. How do the most unstable growth rate
and most unstable length scale change with each parameter?
- 27 November 3.2, 5.4, 6.4
- 3 December 5.7, 6.7, 6.9
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