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Apr 23, 2024
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2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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MAR 557 - Geophysical Fluid DynamicsCredits 3 Requirements: Pre-req: PHY 554 or MNE 501 or MAR 555 or Equivalent Dynamics of rotating stratified fluid flow in the ocean/atmosphere and laboratory. Compressibility, Boussinesq approximation. Geostrophic balance and vorticity. Poincare, Kelvin, Rossby waves, Geostrophic Adjustment. Ekman layers, spin-up. Continuously stratified dynamics: inertia gravity waves, potential vorticity, Quasigeostrophic dynamics. PHY 557, EAS 557 Graded
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