Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Fall 2012: Tuesdays 9:00-10:50am, Warren Weaver Hall 517

Course Syllabus

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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