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2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHY 557 - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Credits 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. EAS 557, MAR 557
Graded