Class Meetings and Notes

Class meets Tuesday and Thursday 1:00-2:15 in Ekeley W240. All assignments due at 7PM on day noted. Office Hours are by appointment (check my availability)
Week Reading

Large Print=Required, Small=Optional 		Tuesday Thursday Assignment
(Due 7PM on Date)
1 Notes01, Vallis15.3
Linear Classification: StrogatzChp5.
Chaotic Pendulum: Shinbrotetal92
Box Model: Stommel61 		1/13: Oscillators and Chaos 1/15: The Double Pendulum Due 1/19: CULearn Assignment 1
2 Vallis3.1
Dimensional Analysis: Wilcox2
Vallis 2.1-2.3, 2.7 		1/20: Linear and Nonlinear Modeling: Stommel Box Model 1/22: Stommel Box Model Due 1/26: CULearn Assignment 2
3 Vallis3.1-3.3, 3.7.1, Pedlosky3.3 1/27: 1d Surface Waves 1/29: 1d Surface Waves Due 2/02: CULearn Assignment 3
4 Pratt1.1-1.4,1.6,1.7 2/03: 1d Shallow Water Equations 2/05: 1d Hydraulics, 1d Instability, Teach-in Due 2/09: CULearn Assignment 4
5 Vallis2.1-2.3, 3.7, Cushman-Roisin&Beckers9.1-9.6, Pedlosky3.1-3.9 2/10: 2d Rotating Shallow Water Equations: Inertial Oscillations 2/12: 2d Plane Waves and Waves in a Box: Poincare, Kelvin Due 2/16: CULearn Assignment 5
6 Pedlosky3.10-3.25 2/13: 2d Waves: Plane Waves 2/19: 2d Waves: Plane Waves, Poincare, Kelvin
7 2/24: 2d Channel Waves: Poincare, Kelvin 2/26: 2d Channel Waves: Kelvin. Poincare
8 Vallis5.1-5.4
Pedlosky3.10-3.12, 3.24-3.25 		3/03: 2d Rossby Wave in SWE, Rossby Wave in QG 3/05: 2d QG Basin Waves, 2d Basin Spin-up. Due 3/09: CULearn Assignment 8
9 Vallis14
PedloskyOCT1, PedloskyOCT2 		3/10: 2d QG Steady Basin Flow 3/12: 2d QG Steady Basin Flow 3/16: Take Home Midterm
10 3/17: 2d PG: Parsons Model, Island Rule 3/19: 2d PG: Veronis, Flierl, Huang
11 Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break
12 Vallis5.4-5.8 3/31: 3d QG and SQG 4/02: 3d QG Waves Due 4/06: CULearn Assignment 10
13 Vallis6 Nakamura, 93 4/7: 3d Instability: Phillips, Eady & Nakamura 4/9: Jim Hansen lecture at Macky
14 PedloskyOCT3, PedloskyOCT4 4/14: QG Ocean: Batchelor, Rhines and Young, and PV Homogenization 4/16: PG Ocean: Luyten, Pedlosky, Stommel Ventilated Thermocline Due 4/20: Assignment 11
15 Vallis15, 16,
Salmon3 		4/21: QG Ocean: Diffusive Thermocline, Linearized PG Ocean 4/23: Summary
16 Vallis15, 16 4/28: No Class 4/30: No Class Due 7PM 5/5: Take Home Final
17 Exam Week Due 7PM 5/5: Take Home Final Exam Week Exam Week

Web Resources and Texts

Course Specific

  1. Reading assignment guidelines.
  2. Computer assignment guidelines.
  3. Matlab guidelines.

Textbooks

  1. Vallis, Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
  2. Pedlosky, GFD
  3. Pedlosky, Ocean Circulation Theory
  4. Pedlosky, Waves in the Ocean and Atmosphere
  5. Salmon, Lectures on GFD
  6. Cushman-Roisin & Beckers, Intro. to GFD
  7. Djikstra, Nonlinear Physical Oceanography
  8. McWilliams, Fundamentals of GFD
  9. Greenspan, The Theory of Rotating Fluids
  10. Zeitlin, Nonlinear Dynamics of Rotating Shallow Water
  11. Batchelor, An Intro. to Fluid Mechanics
  12. Batchelor, The Theory of Homogeneous Turbulence
  13. Kundu, Fluid Mechanics

Software and Toolkits

  1. The Matlab SOM Toolkit
  2. Peter Huybers' multi-taper method
  3. Matlab File Exchange

The Models

  1. Simple Harmonic Oscillator
  2. Chaotic Pendulum
  3. Stommel Box Model
  4. 1d Linear Surface Gravity Waves
  5. 1d Shallow Water Equations
  6. Inertial Oscillator
  7. 2d Shallow Water Waves
  8. Wind-Driven Gyres
  9. Eady/Charney
  10. 2-layer QG Turbulence
  11. Point Vortices
  12. Hetons
  13. The Unified Oscillator
  14. Gnanadesikan's MOC