12.820 / 12.822 Turbulence in Geophysical Systems, Spring 2004

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

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

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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

2004-06

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37290

Other identifiers

12.820-Spring2004

local: 12.820

local: 12.822

local: IMSCP-MD5-89df5806053dccca1b2d49351e8380a9

Keywords

phenomena, theory, and modeling of turbulence, oceans, atmosphere, fine structure, planetary scale motions, homogeneous flows, geostrophic motions, shear flows, convection, boundary layers, stably stratified flows, internal waves, 12.820, 12.822

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