Outline of the Course

  1. Basic Equations of Motions (Chapter One)
    Sections 1.1-1.6, 1.8 and 1.9
  2. Rotations and Stratification (Chapter Two)
    Sections 2.1-2.4, 2.7, 2.8 and 2.10
  3. Shallow Water Systems (Chapter Three)
    Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, 3.7-3.9
  4. Vorticity and Potential Vorticity (Chapter Four)
    Sections 4.1-4.6
  5. Geostrophic Theory (Chapter Five),
    Sections 5.1-5.5
  6. Gravity Waves (Chapter Six and Seven)
  7. Baroclinic and Barotropic Instability (Chapter Nine)
    Sections 9.5 and 9.6
  8. Basic Theory of Incompressible Turbulence (Chapter Eleven)
  9. Geostrophic Turbulence and Baroclinic Eddies (Chapter Twelve)

This outline is very approximate and may be modified as we go along to suite interests of the audience.



Dr Yuri V Lvov 2020-02-25